Trail in the Snow

1959

American, born Japan 1906 - 1999

Horiuchi immigrated to the United States with his family at age fourteen, ending up in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There, the self-taught artist worked long days at the Union Pacific Railroad and painted in what little spare time he could find. This painting, made years after Horiuchi left Wyoming for Seattle, recalls the snowy landscape of that time and place.

Casein on paper

34 7/8 x 22 15/16 in. (88.6 x 58.3 cm)

Overall h.: 43 1/2 in.

Overall w.: 31 1/8 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

60.58

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Paul Horiuchi, 1959

Olympia, Washington, State Capitol Museum, Governor's Festival, Horiuchi Retrospective for Receipt to the Artist of the Governor's Award for 1970, 1970

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Northwest Traditions, June 29-Dec. 10, 1978

La Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, Northwest Art: Shaped by the Hand, Shaped by the Spirit, Sept. 28-Dec. 31, 1995

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Light, Shadow, and Gesture: Paintings by Northwest Artists, Aug. 14, 1997-Aug. 2, 1998

Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century, Oct. 15, 1999-Jan. 23, 2000

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Paul Horiuchi, Mar. 9, 2000-June 11, 2000

Yamanashi-ken, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Paul Horiuchi: Japanese Sensitivity Preserved in the Pacific Northwest, Sept. 27, 2003-Nov. 24, 2004

Published ReferencesClark, Sarah, Charles Cowles, and Martha Kingsbury. Northwest Traditions, ex. cat. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1978. p. 105

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