Collection

Winter and snow paintings, framed

Snow gave painters a hard problem: white that is never quite white. The Impressionists went out into it. Claude Monet painted a cart on the snowy road at Honfleur in 1865 and Camille in a red cape passing a snowy window, Alfred Sisley painted Marly under snow, Gustave Caillebotte painted the Paris rooftops from his window in the winter of 1878, and Camille Pissarro painted the Boulevard Montmartre on a winter morning in 1897.

Caspar David Friedrich's Winter Landscape is colder and more solitary. Albert Bierstadt painted Lake Tahoe in winter, George Inness a winter sky, and Hiroshige the village of Kanbara under night snow. Audubon's Snowy Owl and a 1930s WPA poster for the Lake Placid bobsled run fit the season too.

Winter scenes are quiet and pale, so they suit a bedroom, a hallway or a cabin wall, and they make a good holiday gift. Each is printed at its true shape, nothing cropped or stretched, and arrives framed and ready to hang.

15 works in this collection, dated 1811 to 1937. Most represented: Claude Monet (2) and Utagawa Hiroshige (2). Sources include Library of Congress, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The National Gallery, London.