Blizzard

A large stuccoed house buried under thick snow, its steep snow-capped roof pierced by two dormer windows, stands amid a nocturnal blizzard; three of its windows glow with warm lamplight, neighboring houses are dimly visible at both edges of the scene, and a small dark animal walks alone across the snow-covered foreground.

Rendered in a near-monochrome palette of blue-greys and charcoal broken only by pools of amber window light, the whole surface is softened and blurred as if seen through falling snow, with generalized forms replacing sharp detail; the hushed, cold atmosphere and isolated animal give the scene a quiet, uneasy stillness.