George Henry Durrie 'Red School House Country Scene , 1858' Canvas Art, 24x32

• Artist: George Henry Durrie
• Subject: Landscape
• Style: Cottage / Country
• Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art

This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a winter landscape with a horse-drawn cart going by a red school house.

Prominent Colors: Grey, Tan, Green, Brown

George Henry Durrie was an American artist whose rural winter scenes became popular when he reproduced as lithographic prints by Currier and Ives. In his teens the self-taught artist painted portraits in the New Haven area. In 1839 he received artistic instruction from Nathaniel Jocelyn, a local engraver and portrait painter. Around 1850, he began painting genre scenes of rural life, as well as the winter landscapes that became so popular as prints. Four prints were published between 1860 and the artist's death in 1863; six additional prints were issued posthumously.

Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.