Skiers 1937

Haddon Hubbard Sundblom made this piece, “Skiers” with oil on canvas and with a good amount of warm light. I love how he renders the snowy landscape and the figures with visible brushstrokes. I can imagine him out there, in a freezing environment, trying to capture that exact moment when someone has fallen in the snow. You can see how the paint is applied quite thickly, creating texture that almost mimics the roughness of the snow itself. There’s a certain vulnerability in the way he captures these two figures, especially the woman. It reminds me a bit of some of John Singer Sargent’s paintings where people are caught in casual yet intimate moments. It's interesting how artists across time, from different backgrounds, are all trying to figure out something about being human, aren't they?