Winter

A green, spike-backed dragon-like creature drags a wooden cart on a large wheel; aboard and around it, costumed figures gesture, laugh and hold banners and staffs while small pink pigs wander the cracked, pale ground. A vast pink drapery billows overhead like a canopy, a scaffold-like building rises behind, and a hand-lettered plaque with a date sits at lower right.

Cool blue-grey dusk light fills the sky while the foreground glows in warm ochres, pinks and greens, painted in fine, detailed watercolor washes with crisp outlines. The scene reads as a staged, theatrical procession, part carnival and part fable, its mood tinged with a dramatic, ceremonial solemnity beneath the whimsical cast of characters.