Winter Solstice

At 8:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, winter officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere.

Round Hill Road captures the essence of a winter's day. “Never is nature more lovely than when it is snowing. Everything is so quiet and the whole earth seems wrapped in a mantle,” according to John Henry Twachtman. He owned a small farmhouse and barn on Round Hill Road in Greenwich, Connecticut.

This artwork is part of our traveling exhibition American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, now on view at the the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Source: Joann Moser. American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).

Pictured: John Henry Twachtman, 1853–1902, Round Hill Road, about 1890–1900, oil, 30 1/4 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.