Landscape in Snow/Woodland Trail

Painting

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Landscape in Snow/Woodland Trail

Entry/Object ID

1993.13.05

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Accession

1993.13

Source or Donor

Visual Arts Committee

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Visual Arts Committee Funds

Made/Created

Artist

Alton P. Coffey

Place

Country

Brown County IN, United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Other Names and Numbers

Notes

Risk Management list 2025.

Dimensions

Height

24 in

Width

30 in

Exhibition

“Great Outdoors” (2012)

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"Alton Powell Coffey (a twin) was born July 3, 1904 in Nashville, Indiana. After graduation from high school, he entered John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, Indiana. There he studied four years of figure painting, still life and landscape painting under William Forsyth and Clifton Wheeler."