Walter Baum was one of the few artists of the New Hope School to be born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He felt a close connection to the area’s natural and cultural characteristics. In Winter Landscape Baum features a stream winding through ice and snow-covered banks, which he created with a thick, almost sculptural, application of paint. Dynamic blue shadows accented with passages of yellow and brown capture the contrasting sensations of cold snow and warm sun on a bright, clear winter day.