American Homestead Winter, c. 1868 by Currier & Ives

American Homestead Winter, by Currier & Ives depicts a snow-blanketed New England farmstead, where a horse-drawn sleigh arrives past a barn as a man gathers firewood with his dog at his side, capturing the quiet self-sufficiency of rural winter life; the piece comes from Currier & Ives, the famed 19th-century American lithography publisher whose hand-colored prints became a defining visual record of everyday American life.

Artist: Currier & Ives (American, active 1835-1907). Date: 1868.

American Homestead Winter. 19th-Century American Lithograph Reproduction Canvas Print.