Quiet Winter Day

Provenance

James Vigeveno Galleries, Los Angeles, circa 1950s
Private collection, Carmel, California
Private collection, by descent from the above, 2024
Sale, Bonham’s, New York, New York, November 18, 2025, lot 32

Exhibited

The American British Art Gallery, New York, New York, Selected Paintings by Grandma Moses, January 30-February 18, 1950. (as Quiet Winterday).

Literature

The American British Art Gallery, Selected Paintings by Grandma Moses, January 30-February 18, 1950, n.p., no. 14. (as Quiet Winterday)

Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973), 306, 337, no. 867, illustrated.

This work, painted in October 1949 and revisited in the 1950s, was assigned number 867 by the artist and entered into her record book on page 52.

Related Works

Christmas, 1958, oil and tempera on fiberboard, 16 ⅛× 20 ⅛ inches, signed lower right: MOSES.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Thanksgiving Turkey, 1943, oil on wood, 15⅛ x 19⅛ inches, signed lower left: MOSES.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hoosick Falls in Winter, 1944, oil on hardboard, 19 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches, signed center: MOSES.; Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Note

Grandma Moses is a celebrated, major 20th-century folk artist whose depictions of rural life evoke an idealized, bygone America. Completely self-taught, she filled her paintings with people enjoying winter pastimes and living in harmony with animals and nature, conveying both the vitality of country life and a nostalgic longing for its simplicity. Moses’s work is held in the most esteemed American museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and many more.