• Going to Church, White House Collection
    George Henry Durrie
    snow
    landscape
    White House Collection
    This rural landscape by George Henry Durrie was completed in 1853. A native of New England, Durrie often presented idyllic images of farm life, quiet refuges from America's rapid industrialization and escalating social and political tensions. This winter scene depicts members of a small town heading to church on foot and in horse-drawn sleighs.
  • Street Scene in Winter (Snowstorm, New York), White House Collection
    Childe Hassam
    snow
    painting
    New York City
    New York
    Impressionism
    White House Collection
    This landscape painting is by noted American Impressionist Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam). It shows a snow-covered New York street. The central figure appears to be a young boy slogging his way through the storm. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.
  • The Red Mill, White House Collection
    Ernest Lawson
    snow
    painting
    landscapes
    Impressionism
    White House Collection
    This landscape by American Impressionist Ernest Lawson was completed around 1904. The painting captures a cold day in a small New England town, possibly in the Connecticut Valley, looking up a hillside toward a red brick building, a mill, across an icy river or stream. Lawson was born in Canada but moved to the United States when he was young. He was a member, along with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and other modernist painters, of a group of artists known as The Eight. The group exhibited together in 1908.
  • Jones' Inn – Winter
    George Henry Durrie
    landscape
    snow
    This rural landscape by George Henry Durrie was completed in 1853. A native of New England, Durrie often presented idyllic images of farm life, quiet refuges from America's rapid industrialization and escalating social and political tensions. In this painting, snow and ice covers the ground leading up to Jones' Inn and a neighboring barn. A horse pulls along a red sled and its passenger in the foreground.
  • Barn in Winter, White House Collection
    N. C. Wyeth
    snow
    painting
    landscapes
    Realism
    White House Collection
    This landscape by painter Newell Convers Wyeth (commonly referred to as N.C. Wyeth) is of a barn on a hillside covered with patches of snow. Wyeth was an American painter and illustrator. Two of Wyeth's children, Andrew and Henriette, also have work in the White House Collection.
  • Brooklyn Bridge, Winter, White House Collection
    Guy C. Wiggins
    snow
    painting
    cityscapes
    New York City
    New York
    Impressionism
    White House Collection
    This painting of the Brooklyn Bridge in winter is by Guy C. Wiggins, an American Impressionist who often painted New York City and its five boroughs. Wiggins' painting captures a narrow, snowy, cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge looming high over its Brooklyn neighborhood with views of the East River and Manhattan in the distance. The White House Historical Association provided partial funding for its donation to the White House Collection.
  • Clove Pond, White House Collection
    William J. Glackens
    snow
    painting
    landscapes
    White House Collection
    This landscape of ice skaters on Clove Pond is by William J. Glackens and was completed around 1916. Glackens often painted New York City and Clove Pond likely represents what is today known as Clove Lakes Park in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Staten Island. Glackens was an American Realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan school. Four of his paintings are in the White House Collection.
  • Farmyard in Winter, White House Collection
    George Henry Durrie
    snow
    painting
    landscapes
    White House Collection
    This rural landscape by George Henry Durrie was completed in 1858. A native of New England, Durrie often presented idyllic images of farm life, quiet refuges from America's rapid industrialization and escalating social and political tensions. In this painting, snow and ice covers a farm with a barn, house, grazing livestock, and farmhands at work.
  • Landscape with Houses, White House Collection
    Unknown
    snow
    painting
    landscapes
    Impressionism
    White House Collection
    This painting of a bleak, snowy landscape was done by an unknown artist around 1890. The painting was previously attributed to American Impressionist John H. Twachtman, who has another painting in the White House Collection. It was acquired for the White House Collection by the White House Historical Association in 1975.