Ellen Barbara Segner (1901-2001), Snow Queen, This Week (1938)
Ellen Barbara Segner (American, 1901-2001) Snow Queen, This Week magazine cover, January 2, 1938 Oil on canvas 38 x 30 inches (96.5 x 76.2 cm) Signed lower right: E. B. Segner PROVENANCE: Previously from the Estate of Charles Martignette. Ellen Barbara Segner created the present work for the cover of This Week magazine, a supplement to The Baltimore Sun. Initially published on January 2, 1938, the work additionally appears with the skier in a green suit as a Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company calendar titled Snow Queen. This popular image was later featured again as the cover for Star Weekly, January 1955. For each iteration Segner made small changes to the work and it currently appears as it did on the cover of Star Weekly. HID09710052018 © 2026 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice
Condition Report: Unlined. Very light stretcher lines. Light edgewear with some minor subsequent losses, not affecting central image. Light areas of craquelure through red of suit. Very small scattered losses in upper region of sky, with small touches of subsequent inpaint to some and to areas of blue along extreme edges, not affecting figure. UV examined. Framed Dimensions 41 X 33 Inches
Ellen Barbara Segner (American, 1901-2001) Snow Queen, This Week magazine cover, January 2, 1938 Oil on canvas 38 x 30 inches (96.5 x 76.2 cm) Signed lower right: E. B. Segner PROVENANCE: Previously from the Estate of Charles Martignette. Ellen Barbara Segner created the present work for the cover of This Week magazine, a supplement to The Baltimore Sun. Initially published on January 2, 1938, the work additionally appears with the skier in a green suit as a Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company calendar titled Snow Queen. This popular image was later featured again as the cover for Star Weekly, January 1955. For each iteration Segner made small changes to the work and it currently appears as it did on the cover of Star Weekly. HID09710052018 © 2026 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice
Condition Report: Unlined. Very light stretcher lines. Light edgewear with some minor subsequent losses, not affecting central image. Light areas of craquelure through red of suit. Very small scattered losses in upper region of sky, with small touches of subsequent inpaint to some and to areas of blue along extreme edges, not affecting figure. UV examined. Framed Dimensions 41 X 33 Inches
