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 ArtFrederic 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 MuseumGeorge Biddle (1885-1973), New York in Winter, New York Public LibraryGuy C. Wiggins (1883-1962), Snowed under in New York, Lyman Allyn Art Museum,Raymond White Skolfield (1909-1996), Natural Power, 1934, Smithsonian American Art MuseumAnna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), Winter near Hoosic Falls, NY, circa 1950, New Britain Museum of American Art