One of the most overlooked aspects these days is simple weather imagery. As the old tv commercial used to say "it's not nice to fool mother nature." In this vein of looking back, here are some of the better paintings we have used over the past few years to depict that most rugged time of landscape painting, winter time.
George Catlin (1796-1872), Dakota Buffalo Hunt in Snow Shoes, New Britain Museum of American Art
Alexander-Gabriel Decamps, French, 1803–1860, The Poacher circa 1847, Clark Art Institute
George Durrie (1820-1863), Red School House, 1858, Metropolitan Museum of Art
David Gilmour Blythe (1815–1865), The Halfway House, 1863, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Frederic Church (1826-1900), Aura Borealis, 1865, Smithsonian Museum of American Art
Camille Pissaro (French 1830-1903), Piette's House at Montfoucault, France, 1874, Clark Art Institute
Camille Pissaro (French 1830-1903), Boulevard de Rochechouart, Paris, 1880, Clark Art Institute
Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), Middletown Insane Asylum,
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Frederic Remington (1860-1909), The Scout (Friend or Foe), Clark Art Institute
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Winter, Monhegan Island, 1907, Metropolitan Museum of Art,George Bellows (1882-1925), A Morning Snow, Hudson River, 1910, Brooklyn Museum
George Biddle (1885-1973), New York in Winter, New York Public Library
Guy C. Wiggins (1883-1962), Snowed under in New York, Lyman Allyn Art Museum,
Raymond White Skolfield (1909-1996), Natural Power, 1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), Winter near Hoosic Falls, NY, circa 1950, New Britain Museum of American Art