Andrew Winter (artist)

Andrew Winter (April 7, 1892 – October 27, 1958[1]) was an Estonian-born American artist best known for his landscape paintings on the coast of Maine, particularly his depictions of winter weather.[2]

Andrew Winter
Born
Andres Jüri Winter

(1892-04-07)April 7, 1892
Sindi, Estonia
DiedOctober 27, 1958(1958-10-27) (aged 66)
NationalityEstonian-born American
Education
Known forMonhegan, Maine landscapes and seascapes
Spouse(s)Mary Taylor

Early life

Born in Sindi, Estonia as Andres Jüri Winter on April 7, 1892,[3] he went to sea in 1913 on square riggers before sailing on American and British steamships as a mate during World War I.[4][5]

Education
The Morning After, Monhegan, Maine

In 1921 he became an American citizen, and studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City. In 1925 he went to Paris and Rome to study on a traveling fellowship.[4] He also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Louis C. Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, Long Island.[3]

Career

After frequent visits to Monhegan Island off the Maine coast starting in the late 1920s, he and his wife, the artist Mary Taylor (1895–1970), settled there by 1940.[3] He fished with the lobstermen and "painted Monhegan in all seasons, frequently rowing around the island in the worst of weather to capture scenes of the harshest seas and the most dramatic views of the cliffs and rocks."[5]

Winter was attracted to Monhegan's rocky coast, architecture, and the dramatic force of the ocean.[3] The geometric strength, clear lighting, and absence of human presence in his landscapes have invited comparison to the work of his contemporary, Edward Hopper.[2][4]

Winter exhibited his paintings and won prizes at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Salmagundi Club, and during his lifetime he also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York.[4] His work was included in an exhibition devoted to the work of foreign-born American artists at the 1939 New York World's Fair.[3]

Winter's scrapbooks are in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.[6]

gollark: I also do quite like not having serious conversations be derailed, but mints are nice.
gollark: I like xenowyrms.
gollark: Yes, let the hub fester in its misery.
gollark: *searches current hatchlings/eggs for codes, finds none*
gollark: "Silly code" how? I mean, people like codes.

References
  1. Akadeemik A. Winter suri - Stockholms-Tidningen Eestlastele, 06.11.1958
  2. Little, Carl (2002). The Art of Maine in Winter. Down East Books. p. 17. ISBN 0-89272-592-3.
  3. Lowrey, Carol (2007). "Andrew Winter". A Legacy of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club. Hudson Hills Press. p. 192–193. ISBN 978-0-615-15499-2.
  4. Belanger, Pamela J. (2000). Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum. University Press of New England. p. 142. ISBN 0-918749-08-5.
  5. Chambers, Bruce W. (2005). Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present. Spanierman Gallery. pp. 13–14. ISBN 0-945936-73-7.
  6. "Andrew Winter scrapbooks, 1925-1966". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
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