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By the early 1940s Weber had completely abandoned his gay palette of the 1920s for a more expressive, calligraphic style that favored blue-gray tones, white, and earthy browns. Now he primarily painted winter scenes, desolate landscapes of stark trees and the naked earth deprived of vegetation. In turbulent, expressive works such as Last Snow, he might have been reflecting his response to the trauma of the Great Depression as well as the growing menace of political events leading to the Holocaust in Europe and of anti-Semitism in America.
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