White Christmas is a 1954 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 94 and signed "Moses". It was in the collection of Irving Berlin.Painting record for cat nr. 134, Art and Life, 1969
It shows the artist's impression of an idealized white snowy Christmas, with children playing in the snow and ice-skating on a pond, horse-drawn sleighs on the roads, and a man dragging a pine tree towards a house. Grandma Moses was a fan of popular holiday songs and she possibly made this painting with the song "White Christmas" in mind. It's a rare example from her oeuvre of a painting taller than it is wide. She apparently ignored a proposal to depart from her horizontal landscape format in order to produce magazine covers.Grandma Moses, the artist behind the myth, by Jane Kallir, 1982, plate nr. 59 This one was used as a book cover in 2008.Family Christmas Treasures, by Kacey Barron, 2008
See also Galerie St. Etienne
References
Black & White image of the painting in Otto Kallir's 1969 exhibition catalog Art and life of Grandma Moses Color image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 1162 p. 314, plate 192, Grandma Moses record book nr. 1651 .