Tall spruces heavy with snow crowd the foreground. Bare, twisting branches cross between them, and deeper rows of evergreens fade into a blue-black night. Snowflakes fall throughout, and a pale moon glows behind swirling clouds at the top of the frame.

The paint is thick and sculpted. Snow sits in ridged white strokes on the boughs, and the sky moves in curling palette-knife marks. Deep navy and slate blues give the forest a cold, dreamlike hush.