The weather outside is frightful
But the art is so delightful!
Here are a few favorite winter scenes in the Brooklyn Museum collection. Enjoy the icy wonderlands below, and explore our online collection for more. If you’re in town, come warm up in the galleries!
(Hot tip: We have extended hours for Monet and Venice. Be sure to book your tickets in advance to ensure entry!)
From the top: Hayley Lever. Winter, St. Ives, ca. 1914. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Caroline H. Polhemus Fund, 15.279. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); George Wesley Bellows. A Morning Snow—Hudson River, 1910. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Daniel Catlin, 51.96. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Ker-Xavier Roussel. In the Snow (Dans la neige), 1893. Lithograph on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 38.340. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Utagawa Hiroshige. Bikuni Bridge in Snow, no. 114 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 10th month of 1858. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.114. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Consuelo Kanaga. Snow on Clapboard, 1930s. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.56. copyright transferred to Brooklyn Museum by the Estate of Wallace Putnam. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III). Women and Children Playing in Snow, 1830–39. Color woodblock print on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, X632.2; Anishinaabe artist. Snow Shoes, early 19th century. Wood, cloth, yarn. Brooklyn Museum, Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund, 50.67.76a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Madeline Poster. Snow at Rockefeller Center, 1976. Etching and aquatint paper. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 78.25.3. © Madeline Poster. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
