Winter Landscape

George Henry Durrie's depictions of New England countryside in winter reflects nineteenth-century America's interest in the landscape in all seasons. Martha Hutson has written, "The mainstream of Durrie's art is toward the intimate rather than the grand. [These pictures] retain the quiet placidity characteristic of Durrie's scenes with a prominent genre element of people and animals plus the peaceful mood of snow-covered New England coutryside. As landscapes they are related to the human being and draw their charm partly from the human pleasures associated with the season." (George Henry Durrie, Santa Barbara, California, 1977, p. 96)