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| Keywords: Farmyard in Winter by George Henry Durrie, 1858.jpg Artwork Creator George Henry Durrie Farmyard in Winter 1858 oil on canvas cm 66 91 8 White House Washington D C United States Notes from Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 <br> Farmyard in Winter is a large painting with a solid structure to match The sloping roof of the saltbox house points toward the tops of a pair of great trees They are the central focus The barn and the snowcapped cones of hay anchor the composition at the left Together with the tree and rocks in the right foreground they fix the limits of the space enclosing the heart of the farm and leaving only a small protected entrance The sense of composure--of an implicit pact between man and nature--that suffuses Farmyard in Winter is not a reflection of the reality of 1858 of an industrialized America Durrie ignored the crowded city and chose instead to depict a soundless self-contained and nearly anachronistic corner of American life Credit Line The White House Historical Association White House Collection The White House Historical Association PD-art Other versions http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 47 <gallery> </gallery> PD-old-100 Landscape paintings by George Henry Durrie 1858 paintings Paintings in the White House Winter landscape paintings Paintings of winter Farms in art 1850s landscape paintings Saltbox roofs in the United States | ||||
