Winter Night by Leopold Widlizka

This painting depicts a snowy mountainside, a recurring them in Widlizka’s work for the Federal Art Project. Tall, dark trees contrast lighter highlights of the snow around them. In the distance, two mountain peaks are visible against the skyline. The trees progressively grow smaller in the distance, creating an element of perspective that makes the mountains tower over the foreground. The silhouettes of birds are seen flying over the ground, creating one source of movement in an otherwise completely still winter landscape.