The Straw-Yard, Winter
1857–1872 · 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
- 1857–1872
- Medium
- lithograph, hand colored
- Original size
- 28.4 × 39.3 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- American Folk Art
A dappled grey horse pulls hay from a rack while a dark bay horse in front of it noses at root vegetables scattered in the snow. Pigs root in straw on the left, mallards and pigeons pick at the ground, and a crow sits on the fence post. More horses stand in a yard behind, near a thatched shed and a wooden barn with a loft ladder. Snow lies on the roofs and on the branches of a tree that hangs over the top of the picture. Currier & Ives, the New York publishers of popular prints, issued this hand-coloured lithograph from their Nassau Street premises. The Cleveland Museum of Art credits it to the firm's partners, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, and gives no exact year. Farm animals in winter quarters were a regular subject in the firm's catalogue of country scenes.
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
Two horses, pigs and ducks in a snowy straw yard, in warm browns, greys and the green of a mallard's head. Hang it in a kitchen, mudroom or country hallway beside Audubon's Mallard, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1857–1872)
- 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
