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Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston These Artists Will Change Your Mind About Winter By at 4:00 am NPR I hate snow. Which means I most especially hate this week of the year. The week winter begins. It means snow could come. Or, G d help us, snow is already here. I know, bah humbug. Still . I did like it once. Laughed my way through an eight-foot snowstorm years ago in Boston. But I was young. Now . not so much. Although every time I look at this painting it takes me back to those happy Boston snow days. Frederick Childe Hassam (he never used the Frederick; a friend told him Childe was more exotic ) was born in Boston, and early on, began painting cityscapes. At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight) was his first. I visit the picture every time I m at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and a postcard of it is taped up next to my bed. It exactly captures how I felt in the three winters I spent there. Cold. A little mel ....
Cottages in the Snow, 1891 Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Originally published on December 21, 2020 3:49 pm I hate snow. Which means I most especially hate this week of the year. The week winter begins. It means snow could come. Or, G d help us, snow is already here. I know, bah humbug. Still . I did like it once. Laughed my way through an 8-foot snowstorm years ago in Boston. But I was young. Now . not so much. Although every time I look at this painting, it takes me back to those happy Boston snow days. ....