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Flowers and gardens

• Poppy Field (Giverny) by Claude Monet (1890–91). In July 1890 Monet began four paintings of poppy fields near his home in Giverny, France.
• The Artist's House at Argenteuil by Claude Monet (1873). Monet and his family lived in Argenteuil, outside Paris, from 1871 to 1878.
• Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet (1917–19). Monet painted this during World War I, after several years of poor health and grief.
• Chrysanthemums by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1881–82). Renoir said that painting flowers let his mind rest.

The seaside

• Cliff Walk at Pourville by Claude Monet (1882). Monet painted this clifftop view in 1882 at Pourville, a fishing village in Normandy, France.
• The Beach at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet (1867). In the summer of 1867 Monet stayed with his aunt at Sainte-Adresse, near Le Havre, where he grew up.
• Bordighera by Claude Monet (1884). Monet went to Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera, in early 1884 for three weeks and stayed nearly three months.
• The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque by Paul Cezanne (c. 1885). In a letter to Camille Pissarro, Cezanne compared this view of the sea from L'Estaque to a playing card.

Rivers

• A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat (1884–86). Seurat's largest and best-known painting shows Parisians relaxing in a park on La Grande Jatte, an island in the River Seine.
• Les Andelys, Côte d'Aval by Paul Signac (1886). This is the harbor of Les Andelys, a village on the River Seine near Giverny, France.
• Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy by Vincent van Gogh (1887). The scene is the River Seine at the Clichy bridge near Asnières, a suburb north of Paris.

The countryside

• Croquet Scene by Winslow Homer (1866). Homer began as an illustrator during the Civil War and turned to oil painting in the late 1860s.
• Catskill Mountains by George Inness (1870). In the mid-1800s the Catskill Mountains in New York were America's favorite place to visit.

Autumn

• Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn) by Claude Monet (1890–91). Monet painted the stacks outside his farmhouse in Giverny in 1890 and 1891.
• Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples by Vincent van Gogh (1887). Van Gogh painted this in the fall of 1887, one of a group of paintings of fruit in season.
• Autumn Oaks by George Inness (c. 1878). After painting in Italy in the early 1870s, Inness moved to the looser, more expressive style seen here.
• Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf Mountain by Jasper Francis Cropsey (c. 1870–75). Cropsey's Autumn on the Hudson, painted in 1860, made his name as the painter of the American autumn.

Winter and snow

• Love of Winter by George Bellows (1914). Bellows liked to paint snow at least once a year, and in January 1914 he complained to a friend that it hadn't snowed yet.
• Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) by Claude Monet (1890–91). The wheat stacks Monet painted stood 15 to 20 feet tall just outside his farmhouse at Giverny.
• Sandvika, Norway by Claude Monet (1895). Monet traveled to Norway in 1895 and painted 29 Norwegian scenes in two months.
• Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow by Camille Pissarro (1879). Pissarro painted nearly 100 snow scenes in his career.
• The Winter Sun by George Gardner Symons (about 1909). Symons was born in Chicago and probably studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• Evening Snow at Uchikawa by Utagawa Hiroshige (c. 1836). It comes from Hiroshige's series Eight Views of Kanazawa, made around 1835 and 1836.

City streets

• Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1877). This is Caillebotte's largest painting: a busy Paris crossroads a short walk from his home.
• The Place du Havre, Paris by Camille Pissarro (1893). This busy street was the view from Pissarro's hotel window in Paris early in 1893.

Fruit, flowers and rooms

• The Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh (1889). Van Gogh painted his own bedroom in the Yellow House in Arles, in the south of France, where he moved in 1888.
• The Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne (c. 1893). This was the first painting by Cezanne to join the Art Institute of Chicago's collection.
• An Abundance of Fruit by Severin Roesen (c. 1860). Roesen moved to the United States from Cologne, Germany, in 1848.

Japanese prints

• The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (1830–33). Hokusai began his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji in 1830, when he was 70 years old.
• The Emperor Tenji by Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1835–36). The print illustrates a poem by the Emperor Tenji, who reigned from 668 to 671 and gave Japan its first code of civil law.

Christmas

• Central Park, Winter: The Skating Pond by Currier & Ives, after Charles Parsons (1862). Currier & Ives published this crowded skating scene in 1862, from a painting by Charles Parsons.
• Winter Morning in the Country by Currier & Ives (1873). A two-horse sleigh carries a man, a woman and four big milk cans past a snowy farmhouse.
• Winter Scene in Philadelphia by Attributed to John Lewis Krimmel (1811–13). The columned building is the First Bank of the United States, finished in 1797 and still standing in Philadelphia.
• Skating in Central Park, New York by After Winslow Homer (1861). On Christmas morning in 1858, an estimated 8,000 people came to skate on Central Park's Lake.
• The Farmer's Home—Winter by Currier & Ives, after George Henry Durrie (1863). A man in a red jacket carries hay to two cows in the shed while chickens wait under a bare tree.
• Red School House by George Henry Durrie (1858). Children play around a one-room schoolhouse with snow on its roof.
• Sleighing in New York by Thomas Benecke (1855). The view looks east across Broadway, past Barnum's Museum, with the street packed with sleighs.
• Central Park in Winter by Currier & Ives (1868–94). James Ives became Nathaniel Currier's partner in 1857, and their firm lasted until 1907.
• Skating on the Wissahickon by Johan Mengels Culverhouse (1875). Skating scenes were among Culverhouse's favorite subjects; ten years earlier he had painted skaters in Central Park.
• Approach to Christmas by George Hunt, after James Pollard (undated). George Hunt engraved this hand-colored print from a picture by the English artist James Pollard.
• The Farm-Yard in Winter by Currier & Ives, after George Henry Durrie (1861). It is one of the first prints Currier & Ives made from Durrie's paintings, in 1861.
• American Winter Scenes: Morning by Fanny Palmer, for Nathaniel Currier (1854). Palmer drew it, and Nathaniel Currier printed and published it in 1854, three years before James Ives became his partner.

Thanksgiving

• Home to Thanksgiving by Currier & Ives, after George Henry Durrie (1867). The lettering under the picture says Durrie painted it and Currier & Ives registered the print in 1867.
• Cider Making by William Sidney Mount (1840–41). Mount showed each step of making cider on a farm in Setauket, Long Island, where he was born.
• Haystacks: Autumn by Jean-François Millet (c. 1874). It belongs to a Four Seasons series that the industrialist Frédéric Hartmann ordered from Millet in 1868.
• The Harvest, Pontoise by Camille Pissarro (1881). Pissarro came back to potato gathering again and again for thirty years, in drawings, paintings and prints.
• For to Be a Farmer's Boy by Winslow Homer (1887). A boy pauses while harvesting pumpkins; Homer painted it at Prouts Neck, Maine.
• Autumn Landscape with a Flock of Turkeys by Jean-François Millet (1872–73). In 1873 Millet described it to his patron: a small hill, a nearly bare tree, a woman seen from behind, and turkeys.

Learn more

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• Holiday Activities for Seniors: Easy Puzzles and Games from Thanksgiving to New YearLow-prep holiday activities for seniors: large-print Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year word searches, Sudoku, card games and ideas for groups.