George Henry Durrie’s ‘Red School House (Country Scene)’ at the Met Museum

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Regardless of the actual weather, you can always enjoy a white Christmas in 19th century Connecticut painter George Henry Durrie’s peaceful paintings of snow-decked country scenes.  The Met Museum’s ‘Red School House (Country Scene) features a one-room schoolhouse that has become an epicenter of activity as kids play, men chop wood and a farmer carries produce to market.  (On view at the Met Museum).

A winter scene of man on a sleigh going past a red school house.
George Henry Durrie, Red School House (Country Scene), oil on canvas, 1858.
19th century painting of a farmer with goods on a sleigh in the foreground and a red building (schoolhouse) in the back right.
George Henry Durrie, (detail) Red School House (Country Scene), oil on canvas, 1858.

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