February
Sherry H. Holmes1939-
- Genre
- Impressionistic Landscape
- Medium
- Watercolor
- Date
- Undated
- Dimensions
- 16" W × 14" H × 1" D
- Condition
- Very good; minor age-related frame wear.
- Provenance
- From the personal fine-art collection of Sherry H. Holmes, Barrack Zourie Studio, Cobleskill, New York. Acquired from the September 2026 Sherry Holmes Fine Art Collection sale in Schenectady, New York. The verso is artist-titled “February” and bears Holmes’s name and the address 206 Little York Road, Cobleskill, New York 12043.
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About this piece
February is an original watercolor by upstate New York artist Sherry H. Holmes, depicting a winter landscape beneath a turbulent, overcast sky.
Holmes builds the scene with layered gray, blue, brown, and rust-colored washes, allowing areas of white paper to suggest snow across the ground and distant landscape. Sparse vegetation and dark vertical forms break through the snow, while the heavily worked sky gives the composition a distinctly cold and unsettled atmosphere.
The painting demonstrates Holmes’s strength in using transparent watercolor to suggest weather, season, and depth without relying on tightly rendered detail. The restrained winter palette is punctuated by warmer earth tones, giving the scene visual movement and contrast.
The watercolor is signed “S. HOLMES” at lower right and titled “February” on the verso.
Presented in its existing frame.