Paintings of Winter

 Marie-Francois-Regis Gignoux: Skaters on a Frozen Pond

 Thomas Kirby Van Zandt: Judge Van Aernum in His Sleigh (1855)

 Nicholas Winfield Scott Leighton: Horse-Drawn Sleighs Racing (1885)

 William Charles Anthony Frerichs: Ice Skating (1869)

 William Charles Anthony Frerichs: Skating in Winter

 William Hahn: Forbidden to go Sleigh Riding (1881)

Thompkins Matteson: Playing in the Snow (1856)

Winslow Homer - Illustrations, ctd

 Skating Season (1862)

 Winter, a Skating Scene (1868)

 The Sleighing Season - The Upset (1860)

[this is by far my favorite among Homer's illustrations]

 Untitled Illustration in The Illustrated London News, 1869

 The Russian Ball (1863)

 The Great Russian Ball at the Academy of Music (1863)

Skating at Boston (1859)

Skating on the Ladies' Skating-Pond in the Central Park, New York (1860)

Miscellanea

Here are a few done by artists previously featured here.

 Lilly Martin Spencer: Conversation Piece (1851-52)

 John George Brown: Meditation

 Thomas Eakins: Mending the Net (1881)

 Thomas Eakins: Professionals at Rehearsal (ca. 1883)

 Thomas Eakins: Pushing for Rail (1874)

 Thomas Eakins: The Meadows, Gloucester

 Thomas Hovenden: Breaking Home Ties (1890)

 Frederic Edwin Church: Pinchincha (1867)

Thomas Moran: Grand Canyon of the Colorado River (1892)

Thomas Moran: Lake Como (1867)

Hudson River School, ctd

 De Witt Clinton Boutelle: Untitled (Hudson River Landscape with Indian) (1848)

 Mortimer Smith: Man in Winter (1886)

 Mortimer Smith: Winter Landscape (1878)

 Samuel Colman: Summer on the Saco, Conway Valley (ca. 1865)

 Samuel Colman: Sunset, Lake George (ca. 1860)

 Samuel Lancaster Gerry: Lake Winnipesaukee

 Samuel Lancaster Gerry: Mount Chocorua

 Samuel Lancaster Gerry: New England Autumn (1848)

 Sanford Robinson Gifford: Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore (1871)

 Sanford Robinson Gifford: Mount Rainier, Bay of Tacoma, Puget Sound (1875)

Sanford Robinson Gifford: Sunset in the Shawangunk Mountains (1854)

Thomas Hill, ctd

 View of Cascade Lake, Near Tahoe (1874)

 View of Mount Hood (1866)

 View of Yosemite Valley (1885)

 Westward View from Union Point, Yosemite Valley

 Yosemite Canyon (1894)

 Yosemite Valley (El Capitan & Bridal Veil Falls)

Yosemite Valley (From Below Sentinel Dome, as Seen from Artist’s Point) (1876)

 

 Yosemite Valley (1900)

Yosemite, Bridal Veil Falls (1895)

Happy Holidays!

Hi, all.  I'm taking a break for the holidays and won't be posting regularly until 2013.

Hope you have a wonderful and happy time of it.

Miscellanea

 Frederick Ferdinand Schafer: Indian Encampment in the Wasatch Range, Utah (1891)

 Harold Rudolph: Swamp Sunset (1880)

 James Hamilton: Old Ironsides (1863)

 Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: The Birth of Pennsylvania, 1680

Johan Mengels Culverhouse: Children Playing Croquet