I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight–the heaps of stones by the roadside white–snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!
Katherine Mansfield
(1881-1966) Maginel Wright Enright illustration Cornelis Springer (1817-1891, Dutch) A View of Haarlem 1890c1910Anton Pieck (1895-1987), Dutch painter and illustrator. Conversation of threePeder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859 – 1941) A Winter Day in Herstedvester, 1929Edvard Munch (Norvegian painter) 1863-1944 Winter in Kragerø, 1912 Munch Museum, OsloHarald Sohlberg (Norwegian, 1869-1935) The Old Captain’s House, Winter Afternoon, 1909Mole’s Christmas, or, Home Sweet Home (from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrations by Beverley Gooding 1984Clarence Gagnon. A Farm, Last Rauys, 1913Charles Burchfield (American, 1893 – 1967) Ice Glare, 1933Kochel, Snowy Landscape with Houses, 1909 Gabriele Münter, (German 1877 – 1962)Village in the Snow by Belgian painter Leo Piron (1899-1962)Eyvind Earle (American Painter 1916 – 2000)Keep Warm – London Underground Poster – art by Kathleen Stenning – 1925Hergé – Christmas cover illustration for Le Petit Vintieme, 1931‘At the Brenner Pass’, Engelbert Lap, colour woodcut, 1920s‘December Afternoon’ 1940, stone lithograph by Grant Wood (1891-1942)Theodore Clement Steele (American Impressionist Painter, 1847-1926) Winter AfterJan Sluyters (1881 – 1957)Ellison HooverSnowy Studio In Theresiengasse, Austria ,1905 Carl MollWillem Witsen (1860-1923) Winter evening in EdeElene Akhvlediani (Georgian, 1901-1975) Winter in Racha, 1968Der Widiwandelwald by Hilde Krüger, a Berlin picture book featuring pictures made of triangles 1924 cf. the work of El LissitzkyArnold LobelNovo-Lenino. Terminus a painting by Evgeny Shpirko, USSR, 1967Otakar Cila (Czech, 1894 – 1973) Winter residence of General Syrový in Yakutsk , 1919Theodor Kittelsen, 1907, Stave Church In SnowKarl Hauptmann (1880-1947) Snow-Capped Farmhouse in the Black ForestKarl Hauptmann (German painter, Black Forest, 1880-1947) Winter LandscapeChris Van AllsburgCamille Pissarro. Farm at Montfoucault in snow, 1874–1876Bernard Gantner (1928-2018)N. Barchenkov. In Gorki. Winter landscapeN. C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945) Winter Morning, Christmas Morning 1913Elene Akhvlediani (Georgian, 1901-1975) Winter in Telavi (the main city and administrative centre of Georgia’s eastern province of Kakheti)Grandma Moses (1860- 1961) an American folk artist who started painting age 78Alexey Savrasov Winter, 1873Elene Akhvlediani (Georgian, 1901-1975)Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Aschaffenburg, Alemania The Junkerboden under Snow c. 1937Porter Woodruff for House and Garden January 1918A.J.Casson (1898-1992) Roof TopsJohn Falter Waiting for School Bus in Snow, 1947. Artist lived in Nebraska. (See also: Buses In Art.)Early Morning, First Snow’, Maxfield Parrish, oil on canvas,1959Juri Klever Winter Landscape. 1914Sunshine and Shadow Stanley Royle, oil on canvas, 1926Hale Woodruff (African-American, 1900 – 1980)Walter Farndon (USA, 1876-1964) Midnight Snow in Nova ScotiaJulius Nemcik (Czech, 1909 – 1986) Women in winter, 1940‘Homestead at Night’ by George William Sotter, oil on masonite, circa 1940‘Winter Landscape from Herstedvester’ by Peder Mørk Mønsted 1923The Ettrick Shepherd’, James McIntosh Patrick, oil on canvas, 1936Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935)‘A Frosty Morning, Salisbury, Wiltshire’, Percival Arthur Wise, oil on board, before 1968Sandvika, Norway 1895 Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) Snowtime in Venice-Nadon, 1880‘Winter Morning’, John Henry Norman, oil on canvas, 1935Winter in Aizu (1967) by Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)Kiyoshi Saito. Winter in Aizu, 1969Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Ono, MitoTsuchiya Koitsu, 1935. This style of art inspired the atomic style in Europe (e.g. the Tin-tin art).Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Slope at Senko Temple, Onomichi, 1922John Giacometti (1868-1933) Press, Switzerland, Winter Landscape at Maloja, 1927A New Year’s postcardPeder Mørk Mønsted (1859–1941) Ponte-CampovasEdvard Munch. Fra Saaksegårdsgate (From Saxegårdsgate) circa 1882‘Foggy Winter Day. To the Left a Yellow House. Deep Snow.’ L. A. Ring, oil on canvas, 1910Władysław Jarocki (Podhajczyki, 1875 – Krakow, 1965) Landscape from Poronin, 1915Uwe Hänstch – The Snow QueenPerry Barlow Jan 27 1945 New Yorker coverPerry Barlow Jan 14 1950 New Yorker coverMy Country Cottage In Winter, Sundborn’, Carl Larsson, watercolour, 1904Corfe Castle, Stanley Royle, oil on canvas, 1939Edward Hersey, contemporary painter, “A master of light and shade”. Another painting by Edward Hersey, contemporary painter, “A master of light and shade”. Hersey was born in 1948 and is an artist in Surrey, England. Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905 – 1998) 1220 Quincy Street, ca. 1948-1953Elene Akhvlediani (Georgian, 1901-1975) Village At Night in WinterIvan GantschevIvan Generalich. Winter landscape, 1944Frederic Richardson 1918
Harald Oskar Sohlberg (29 September 1869 – 19 June 1935) was a Norwegian Neo-romantic painter. Neo-romanticism was an art movement which covers from about 1850 until 1890, which takes us into Modernism. When it comes to painting, “Neo-romanticism” is applied to a loosely affiliated school of landscape painting that emerged around 1930 and continued until the early 1950s. Neo-romantic painters were influenced by William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Pavel Tchelitchew. Not to be confused with The New Romantic movement, whichh= was a pop culture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.
Harald Sohlberg (1869 – 1935)
Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 – 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and died when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
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The off-kilter, modernist sensibility is reminiscent of picture book illustration. The circles as snow convey further naivity.
Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver. ‘Halstead Road in Snow’ (1935)
Eric Sloane (1905 – 1985) was an American landscape painter, illustrator, and author of illustrated books on the cultural history and folklore of America. Notice how frequently snowy landscapes are accompanied by yellow and orange skies, in painting as in real life.
Eric Sloane (1905 – 1985) Harald Wiberg (1908-1986). This fine art is from a children’s book about a Christmas Tomten.Achiel Van Sassenbrouck (Belgian, 1886 – 1979) Winter landscape Ben Kimberly Prins (1902-1980) 1955 Party After Snowfall for The Saturday Evening PostRowland Hilder (1905-1993). Born in New York to an English father, who subsequently moved back to Kent when Rowland was about ten.Wilhelm Purvit (1872 – 1945) The Last Snow, 1898.Mikhail Germashev (1868-1930) Near Petrograd. Oil on canvas. I love the empty sled and the horse waiting patiently.Valerius de Saedeleer (Belgian, 1867 – 1941) Joan Eardley (1921 – 1963) Catterline in Winter, 1963, Aberdeen, ScotlandJoseph Farquharson – An Aberdeenshire Farm Under SnowMstislav Dobuzhinsky. Vitebsk, 1919. Watercolour on paper. How do you do snow in watercolour? This is how.John Kasyn (Canadian, 1926-2008). Old Stucco House, Austin Ave, 1970Roger Duvoisin. White Snow Bright Snow. Text by Alvin Tresselt. An example of what I call ‘collage’ or ‘sticker sheet’ illustration.Arthur Getz HAMILTON DUCK 1972Spring Snow at Torigoe Shrine, Asakusa by Kasamatsu Shiro. Japanese woodblock print, 1934Tennoji Temple in Osaka – Hasui Kawase (1883-1957)Laurits Andersen Ring (1854 – 1933) Martin Lewis (1881 – 1962) 1934 ‘Winter On White Street’Svend Otto – The Snow QueenEdvard Munch Winter Landscape with House and Red Sky 1881Edvard Munch. View from Fossveien, 1880-81, oil on canvasPeter Mørk MønstedSøren Christian Bjulf (Danish painter) 1890 – 1958, Winter landscape with children on skis, 1940Otto Hesselbom (Sweden, 1848-1913) Winter landscape with cottageVictor Charreton (French, 1864-1936)This was made using a stock photo of a house and the help of Deep Dream Generator, using the painting above by Hale Woodruff as a style image.Before I put the rain cloud in. Can’t decide if I prefer it with or without.I used this image as its base.Here’s another one, also using the style image of Hale Woodruff.I used this stock image as base.Based on the Stephen King novelRed Snow 2021 directed by Sean Nichols Lynch. A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)
On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.
Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:
