American Homestead Winter
1868 · lithograph, hand colored · Cleveland Museum of Art
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Currier & Ives (firm active 1857–1907 (Nathaniel Currier 1813–1888, James Merritt Ives 1824–1895))
- Year
- 1868
- Medium
- lithograph, hand colored
- Original size
- 20.1 × 30.6 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- American Folk Art
A couple in a sleigh drawn by two chestnut horses drives away from a white clapboard farmhouse with green shutters and smoking chimneys. A man carrying firewood on his shoulder walks towards them with a dog at his heels, and a woman stands in the side doorway of the house. To the left, a cow waits outside a red barn beside a stone watering trough, and a large bare tree leans over the snowy lane. Currier & Ives of New York published the print in 1868, as part of a series of American Homestead views of the seasons issued in 1868 and 1869. Small, hand-coloured prints like this one were sold cheaply to be hung in ordinary homes. The firm's partners, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, are credited as its makers. This impression is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A white farmhouse, a red barn and a chestnut sleigh team in snow under a pale grey sky. It suits a kitchen, breakfast room or entryway beside Audubon's Northern Cardinal, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1868)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
