{"id":12834,"date":"2025-12-27T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T22:02:26","slug":"george-henry-durries-red-school-house-country-scene-at-the-met-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/27\/george-henry-durries-red-school-house-country-scene-at-the-met-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"George Henry Durrie&#8217;s &#8216;Red School House (Country Scene)&#8217; at the Met Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of the actual weather, you can always enjoy a white Christmas in 19<sup>th<\/sup> century Connecticut painter George Henry Durrie\u2019s peaceful paintings of snow-decked country scenes.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/10805\">Met Museum<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Red 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.\u00a0 (On view at the Met Museum).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 5098px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/57753f28-0c15-815b-2ea3-4000f61e8761.jpg\" alt=\"A winter scene of man on a sleigh going past a red school house.\" width=\"5098\" height=\"3923\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Henry Durrie, Red School House (Country Scene), oil on canvas, 1858.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 5341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/cfed0655-8600-e760-2d61-3c679e092348.jpg\" alt=\"19th century painting of a farmer with goods on a sleigh in the foreground and a red building (schoolhouse) in the back right.\" width=\"5341\" height=\"4122\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Henry Durrie, (detail) Red School House (Country Scene), oil on canvas, 1858.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the actual weather, you can always enjoy a white Christmas in 19th century Connecticut painter George Henry Durrie\u2019s peaceful paintings of snow-decked country scenes.\u00a0 The Met Museum\u2019s \u2018Red 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 &hellip; 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