Eastern Point Light, V.I.

Andrew Winter was an Estonian-born artist known for his many landscape paintings of the coast of Maine.

Winter became an American citizen in 1921 and began studying at the National Academy of Design.

Beginning in the late 1920s, Winter frequently visited Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine. By the 1940s, he and his wife made the island their home.

The artist found beauty in the Monhegan's rocky coast, architecture, and the dramatic force of the ocean. Much of his work captures these scenes.

During his lifetime, Winter’s paintings were exhibited at The National Arts Club, National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Salmagundi Club, as well as the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, NH Hampshire, and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.