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Winter view of a farm house and outbuildings. People appear to be in the process of arriving on horse-drawn sleighs.
Durrie, George Henry, 1820-1863 (Creator)
NEA Artist and the Connecticut Landscape - Florence Griswold Museum
Florence Griswold Museum
George H. Durrie was a lifelong New Haven resident who painted actual Connecticut places as well as composite scenes depicting idealized rural life. Few artists shaped the popular image of New England more than Durrie, whose Connecticut landscapes were distributed as prints by the firm of Currier and Ives. Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company.
1853
Connecticut
Farms Sleighs Horses Barns Dwellings Winter
Oil paintings Landscapes (Representations)
Source extent: 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 26 x 36-1/8 in.
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Accession number: 2002.1.50 fgm_2002_1_50.jp2
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/270002:41