Saturday
26Dec2009
Scenes of Winter By Currier and Ives
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 12:22PM ;)
We are in the eighth day of having snow on the ground, although it is now melting fast. For a time however we had a "Currier & Ives winter" look hereabouts. No horse-drawn sleighs, of course. But the landscape had an old-fashioned look to it; actual white stuff, everywhere, not yet turned dingy brown by snow-blowers and plows, those having been overwhelmed by a foot of heavy snow.
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Currier & Ives, "American Homestead Winter"
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Currier & Ives, "The Ingleside Winter"
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Currier & Ives, "A Home In The Wilderness"
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Currier & Ives, "Early Winter";)
Currier & Ives, "Frozen Up";)
Currier & Ives, "A Snowy Morning";)
Currier & Ives, "Winter Pastime
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Reader Comments (2)
I really enjoy seeing America's past in idyllic paintings. It gives me a sense of nostalgia even though I have never lived in the nineteenth century. Another one that does that is Grandma Moses.
I am particularly fond of the goose-stepping convention Currier and Ives used to show horses at speed. My grandfather owned a graceful two-person (or one fireplug Germanic grandpa and two kids) one-horse open sleigh--drove it not infrequently in the 1950's when anecdotal memory instructs that weekends like the one before last were more frequent (I am mindful of your recent analysis to the contrary). Great geezer story material, unfortunately listeners increasingly both few & unwilling.