Winter Scene, Hudson Heights, Quebec, circa 1939

Private Collection, Montreal Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal Private Collection, Toronto

Important Canadian Art, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, January 27, 2012 Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada’s 150 Years, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Toronto, April 1, 2017

Albert H. Robson, Canadian Landscape Painters, Toronto, 1932, page 108

Frederick Hutchison had a sympathetic eye for the landscape and environs of the St. Lawrence River and its villages. This is illustrated in “Winter Scene, Hudson Heights, Quebec”, with the artist’s primary interest being the play of warm light and cool shadow on the house and the surrounding snow. There is a subtle and poetic arrangement to this painting, with emphasis on atmosphere and the charm of colour. For many years Hutchison depicted the beautiful region of the Lower St. Lawrence and captured the essence of the French-Canadian countryside, as did other fine painters such as Morrice, Cullen, Gagnon and Jackson. As Albert H. Robson observed, “Hutchison’s landscapes have a fine diffusion of light. He is a true Impressionist with an exquisite sense of colour.”