Title: Spring in the Alps

Artist: Giovanni Segantini

Title: Spring in the Alps Date: 1897 Artist: Giovanni Segantini (Italian, Arco 1858–Schafberg, Switzerland 1899) Medium: Oil on canvas Description Spring in the Alps is a luminous hymn to the cyclical revitalization of nature. Executed at the peak of the painter’s short career, it features a panoramic Swiss landscape animated by a solemn peasant leading two draft horses, a lively woman, and a frisky-tailed mountain dog. Densely layered and rhythmically patterned strokes of distinct, bright colors capture the crisp, radiant atmosphere of the scene and create a highly tactile, almost tapestry-like surface. The painting, which Segantini ranked among his masterpieces, was commissioned in 1897 by Jacob Stern, a San Francisco collector and a director of Levi Strauss & Co.