White Christmas (Grandma Moses)
White Christmas is a 1954 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 94 and signed "Moses". It was in the collection of Irving Berlin.[1]
| White Christmas | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Grandma Moses |
| Year | 1954 |
| Medium | Oil paint, composition board |
| Dimensions | 23.75 in (60.3 cm) × 19.75 in (50.2 cm) |
| Owner | Irving Berlin |
It shows the artist's impression of an idealized white snowy Christmas, with children playing in the snow and ice-skating on a pond, horse-drawn sleighs on the roads, and a man dragging a pine tree towards a house. Grandma Moses was a fan of popular holiday songs and she possibly made this painting with the song "White Christmas" in mind. It's a rare example from her oeuvre of a painting taller than it is wide. She apparently ignored a proposal to depart from her horizontal landscape format in order to produce magazine covers.[2] This one was used as a book cover in 2008.[3]
See also
References
- Painting record for cat nr. 134, Art and Life, 1969
- Grandma Moses, the artist behind the myth, by Jane Kallir, 1982, plate nr. 59
- Family Christmas Treasures, by Kacey Barron, 2008
- Black & White image of the painting in Otto Kallir's 1969 exhibition catalog Art and life of Grandma Moses
- Color image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
- Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 1162 p. 314, plate 192, Grandma Moses record book nr. 1651 .