Winter Wall Art

Winter as the painters and printmakers actually saw it, not as a season of ornament: a duck riding black water, camellia bent under snow, a horse led through a French village in 1899, Monet’s wheatstacks with the snow turning blue at sunset, Monet again at Sandvika outside Christiania, where he painted the snow in pink and lilac, and Munch’s frozen shore at Nordstrand, painted on bare cardboard so the brown of the board carries the cold light.

Ten sheets, chosen one at a time. Six are woodblock prints from Edo, where winter is a formal subject with its own rules — among them two sheets from one 1862 series, the Sumida under falling snow and Takanawa above the bay, made to hang as a pair; three are paintings and one is a photograph. They are here because the picture is genuinely a winter picture — not because the word sells in November. Hiroshige’s Torinomachi festival print is the exception worth naming: there is no snow in it, but it is No. 101 of the Hundred Famous Views, dated to the eleventh month, and it sits in the winter section of the series. That is the kind of thing we would rather explain than quietly drop.

Every sheet is printed from the highest-resolution file the holding museum publishes, at original size wherever the original allows it, on 200 gsm fine art paper with twelve pigment inks, with a white border and no frame. The measurements, the source file and what we are allowed to sell are on the record page linked from each product.