New England Winter Scene
1861 · 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
- 1861
- Medium
- lithograph, hand colored
- Original size
- 41.8 × 60 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- American Folk Art
A man in a blue coat holds a black horse and sleigh by an open gate, where a sledge-track road curves into a farmyard. Beyond the fence stand a tan clapboard farmhouse, a barn with an ox in the doorway, a well sweep and a woodpile. Snow covers the ground and roofs, a tall tree with a few brown leaves rises at the centre, and low hills fade into a grey-green sky. Currier & Ives of New York published the hand-coloured lithograph in 1861 after a painting by George Henry Durrie. Durrie, a self-taught landscape painter from New Haven, Connecticut, specialised in farms in snow. His scenes were painted as generic New England places, so buyers anywhere could see their own countryside in them. 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 quiet New England farm in snow, in soft tans, greys and a grey-green winter sky. It suits a living room, study or hallway beside Thayer's Winter Sunrise, Monadnock, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1861)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, study or library, 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
