Top ten winter-related artworks (slide show)

Doomsday was an epic fail, but winter still arrived. Get in the mood, and keep it frosted with these chill scenes from art history.

By Howard Halle

  • Photograph: Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

    Pieter Bruegel The Elder, The Hunters in the Snow, 1565

  • Photograph: Courtesy National Gallery of Scotland

    Sir Henry Raeburn, Portrait of The Reverend Robert Walker Skating, 1784

  • Caspar David Friedrich, Cloister Cemetery in the Snow, 1817-1819, destroyed 1945

  • Hiroshige, Snow falling on a town, c.1833

  • Photograph: Courtesy Colby College Museum of Art

    James Whistler, Harmony in Grey—Chelsea in Ice, 1864

  • Vincent Van Gogh, Snowy Landscape with Stooping Woman, 1889

  • Photograph: Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum

    Claude Monet, Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning, 1891

  • Photograph: Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Kasimir Malevich, Morning in the Village after Snowstorm, 1912

  • Photograph: Courtesy Stedelijk Museum

    Marc Chagall, the Fiddler, 1913

  • Photograph: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art

    John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwhich Village, 1914

  • Photograph: Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park, 1934

  • Photograph: Couresty Delaware Art Museum

    Andrew Wyeth, Tenant Farmer, 1961

Photograph: Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Pieter Bruegel The Elder, The Hunters in the Snow, 1565

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