Winter Clearing

by Allen Dean Cochran (1888–1971)
Oil on canvas
24 x 30⅛ inches
Signed lower right: Allen. D. Cochran

Provenance

Private collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Note: Allen Dean Cochran was a member of the Woodstock Art Colony and trained under two notable figures, Kenyon Cox and Birge Harrison. Cochran created numerous depictions of the forest ground, noting the changes of light and color throughout different seasons.

Artist Biography

Allen Dean Cochran was a prominent member of the Woodstock Art Colony, a community of painters and craftspeople that became a center of artistic activity in the beginning of the twentieth century. At Woodstock, Cochran trained under Kenyon Cox and Birge Harrison and absorbed the artistic and literary currents that pulsed through the colony. He soon developed an individual style that drew on the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement and the Tonalist manner, endowing his landscapes with striking designs and a hazy, ethereal beauty. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the

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