Winter depicts a large, heavily clad figure with only a tiny face revealed to the elements. The fragmented construction resembles armor, suggesting a form of defense against violence as well as the weather. Newman feels that every individual requires some form of protection, and Winter could be a metaphor for the imagined barriers people create between themselves and the rest of the world.
“We protect ourselves to keep out of the cold of the northern winter and the gaze, real or imagined, that others or we ourselves cast upon us.” Howard Newman, 2004
- Title
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Winter
- Artist
- Date
- 1978
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 15 x 6 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄8 in. (38.1 x 16.5 x 20.7 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- bronze on integral base
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Allegory – season – winter
- Object Number
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1985.30.55
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
