Thaw
Original title
L.A. Ring
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMS7709
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1933. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- A wide, flat winter landscape at the moment of thaw: patches of melting snow and pools of grey water across the fields, an old split-rail fence running diagonally across the foreground, and a low line of farms on the horizon under a white sky.
- Image
- 1600 × 1021
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009044
coldlibrary.com/g/009044 - Credit line
- L.A. Ring, Thaw, 1901. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009044
A second Ring, painted five years earlier: the same country at the turn of the season. Thaw is not yet spring, only the first loosening, and Ring gives it all the attention another painter might give a sunset. The fence leads you in; the open water tells you the year is turning.
