White Christmas (Grandma Moses) Explained

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Medium:Oil paint, composition board
White Christmas
Artist: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]

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]

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  1. https://archive.org/details/artlifeofgrandma00mose/page/128/mode/1up Painting record for cat nr. 134
  2. Grandma Moses, the artist behind the myth, by Jane Kallir, 1982, plate nr. 59
  3. https://search.worldcat.org/title/263512194 Family Christmas Treasures