Spring Day in Lofoten
Original title
Otto Sinding
- Institution
- SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ↗
- Accession
- KMS1230
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1909. SMK marks this image as public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0).
- Description
- A rocky shore in the far north of Norway: boulders and patches of snow in the foreground, a harbour crowded with fishing boats, sails up, in the middle distance, and snow-covered mountains rising against a pale spring sky.
- Image
- 1600 × 903
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009051
coldlibrary.com/g/009051 - Credit line
- Otto Sinding, Spring Day in Lofoten, 1882. SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), PDM-1.0. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009051
Sinding painted the Lofoten islands, far above the Arctic Circle, where the great cod fishery gathered boats each late winter and spring. The snow has not left the mountains, and the boats are already out. It hangs here as a picture of work resuming at the edge of the cold.
