Winter+Scene+in+New+Haven,+Connecticut

Date: ca. 1858
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1978/1978.124_1a.jpg?itok=pM24bktu width="353" height="267" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/winter-scene-new-haven-connecticut-7645"]] || Title: **Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut**

Artist: **George Henry Durrie** Born: New Haven, Connecticut 1820 Died: New Haven, Connecticut 1863

Medium: oil on canvas Dimension: 8 x 24 in. (45.6 x 60.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1978.124 || Ominous snow clouds circle overhead, and bare trees stand motionless against the darkening hills and cold gray sky. The figures in the farmyard converse with a visitor who has arrived by sleigh. Despite the impending storm, men, women, and animals betray no unease or alarm. Durrie further conveys a sense of security as the house and barn stand as protective symbols, providing warmth and safety to their inhabitants.
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