Snow in the Foothills, Willard L. Metcalf (1920-25)

Location: Smithsonian
Size: 74.5 x 84.1 cm

Winter Scenes...

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Sunset On The Seine In Winter, Claude Monet (1880)

Hush of Winter, Willard Metcalf (1911)

Oil on canvas - 28 1/8" x 29 3/8"
Another one of the American Impressionists, more on Metcalf here.

Snow At Vaugirard II, Paul Gauguin (1879)

Gauguin paints a lively winter scene.

Niagara in Winter, John Henry Twachtman (1894)

Oil on canvas - 30 1/8" x 25 1/8"
A master of the winter scene, more on Twachtman here.

View Of Rooftops (Snow), Gustave Caillebotte (1878)

Here we see one of Caillebotte's unorthodox points of view.

Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1868)

One of the only snow scenes Renoir ever accomplished as he did not prefer to paint in the cold or see the point of painting snow.

Snow Scene At Eragny, Camille Pissarro (1884)

Pissarro depicting the view of the town of Bazincourt. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 18" x 23 3/4"

The Breakup Of The Ice, Monet (1880)

Here we have Monet depicting the expanse and depth of the Seine River in a majestic way. (University of MI Museum of Art, 24 3/4" x 39 5/16")

Frost In Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley (1873)

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
More on Sisley here.

Stack of Wheat, Claude Monet (1891)

One of a series of paintings done en plein air in Giverny, France where Monet lived. (The Art Institute of Chicago)

Farm At Montfoucault, Snow Effect, Camille Pissarro (1876)

More on Pissarro here.

The Red Kerchief, Portrait of Madame Monet (early 1870s)

Claude Monet painted his wife Camille many times before and after they were married in 1870. Notice his impression of his wife's movement and that moment of her looking in from the cold. Original held in the Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (100 x 80 cm).

Winter Harmony, John Henry Twachtman (1890s)

Here is one of this American Impressionist's many scenes from his farm near Greenwich, Connecticut (25 3/4 x 31 15/16 in. - National Gallery of Art, D.C.). He was one of the founding members of The Ten. More on Twachtman here.

Snow at Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley (1874 & 1878)

Two more wonderful winter compositions by a French impressionist painter - the first by Sisley in 1874 and the second with more dynamic brushwork and a cooler palet done in 1878.

To learn more of Louvenciennes (a favorite site of several French impressionists) & see an earlier Sisley painting go here.

The Magpie, Claude Monet (1869)

A brilliant composition by a master of light and shadow and the fleeting moment.