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Winter~ January 19

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Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom by Yōshū Chikanobu

1887 / Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper /
Image: 14”x28 3/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet) by Vincent van Gogh

1890 / Oil on canvas / 28”x36” / Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Winter~ January 15

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Central Park, Winter, The Skating Pond
After a painting by Charles Parsons / Lithographed by Lyman W. Atwater / Published by Currier & Ives

Date:1862 / Hand-colored lithograph / Image: 18 1/8”x26 9/16” / Various collections

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The Magpie by Claude Monet

Between 1868 & 1869 / Oil on canvas / 35”x51 1/5” / Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Winter~ January 13

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Tokiwa Gozen, from the series Lives of Wise and Heroic Women by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

About 1841-42 / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 14”x9 11/16” / Various collections

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The Forest in Winter at Sunset by Théodore Rousseau

c.1846–1867 / Oil on canvas / 64”x102 3/8” / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Winter~ January 12

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A Raja Enjoys a Huqqa During a Cold Winter Night / Pahari School, northern India

c.1825-1850 / Pigments hand-tinted with gold on paper / 9 1/2”x5 3/4” / Private collection

Teahouse at Koishikawa The Morning After a Snowfall by Katsushika Hokusai

c.1830–32 / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 10 1/8”x15” / Various collections

Winter~ January 9

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The Four Seasons: Winter by François Boucher

1755 / Oil on canvas / 22 3/8”x28 3/4” / The Frick Collection, New York, NY
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Courtesan Watching Two Kamuro Make a Snow Dog by Suzuki Harunobu

About 1767-68 / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 11 1/16”x8 1/16” / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Winter~ January 7

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Bamboo in Snow by Hu Zhengyan

After 1633, before 1703 / Page from woodblock printed book, mounted as album leaf; ink and color on paper /
9 13/16”x11 5/16” / Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Harvard Art Museums)

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The Castle of Muiden in Winter by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten

1658 / Oil on canvas / 37 9/10”x50 9/10” / The National Gallery, London

December 24~ Animals in Art

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Dugn’be (Bull Mask) / Bijagó people, Bissagos (Bijagós) Islands, Guinea-Bissau

Late 19th to mid-20th century / Wood, cow horns, glass, plant fiber, and paint /
10 5/8”x19 11/16”x11 13/16” / Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
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The World Cow  by  Franz Marc

1913 / Oil on canvas / 27 7/8”x55 5/8″ / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY