Sarpsborg, Norway

In 1952, Kanwal Krishna went to Norway on a government invitation, spending a year, studying and painting, chiefly the country’s Scandinavian landscape. This beautiful snapshot of the row houses in the city of Sarpsborg in Norway catches a snowy evening in expressionist brush strokes—the bare branches of the trees and the snow-covered road and pavements offset by the bright façades of the houses, where smoke escapes the chimneys, indicating living, thriving quarters opposed to the stark winter outside. Also a printmaker, Krishna is best remembered for his landscapes of the mountains, to paint which he travelled extensively.