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Samuel GriggsWinter Home
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Samuel W. Griggs (1827–1898)
Winter Homestead with Sleigh, ca. 1870s
Signed lower left
Oil on board
Sight size: 10.5 x 16.5 inches
Over all size: 14.5 x 20.5 inches
Auction high for Samuel Grigg is $13,000.00
In this evocative winter landscape, Samuel W. Griggs captures the quiet dignity of rural life nestled within the mountainous terrain of New England. A crimson farmhouse anchors the composition, its snow-laden roof and twin chimneys gently exhaling warmth into the crisp air. The surrounding pines, rendered with Griggs’s characteristic attention to natural form, stand sentinel against the encroaching wilderness, while distant peaks rise solemnly beneath a clouded sky.
Foreground activity—a horse-drawn sleigh gliding across the snow and two figures trudging toward the homestead—imbues the scene with narrative intimacy. These human touches, modest yet deliberate, reflect Griggs’s sensitivity to the rhythms of seasonal labor and domestic resilience. The palette, dominated by cool whites and muted earth tones, is punctuated by the house’s vivid red—a visual hearth amid the subdued expanse.
Griggs, a Boston-based painter associated with the White Mountain School, was known for his topographical fidelity and poetic restraint. This work exemplifies his ability to balance documentary precision with emotional resonance, offering viewers not just a view of winter, but a meditation on solitude, shelter, and the enduring relationship between people and place.



