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# Commemorating the Blizzard's Aftermath...
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/storm-aftermath/
- Published: 2010-12-30T17:00:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:49:03.000Z
- Description: New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it's no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday's storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here's Hendrick Avercamp's 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”. Click through for some more of my favorite winter
- Author: Kyle Chayka
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Catherine Opie, Childe Hassam, David Hammons, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/rijks-winter-landscape_post.jpg)

Hendrick Avercamp, “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters” (c. 1608) (image from rijksmuseum.nl)

New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it’s no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday’s storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here’s Hendrick Avercamp’s 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”.

Click through for some more of my favorite winter pictures.

## Catherine Opie’s Ice Houses

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/opie_crop.jpg)

Catherine Opie, “Untitled (Icehouses)” (2001) (image from guggenheim.org)

Catherine Opie’s documentary photos of fishermen’s makeshift icehouses perched precariously on a horizon split between white sky and white snow are chilling enough on their own.

## Childe Hassam’s Boston Common in the Snow

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/boston-common-at-twilight.jpg)

Childe Hassam, “Boston Common at Twilight” (1885) (image from mfa.org) 

To me, this is the classic painted image of Boston that sits in my mind every winter. Strolling around the Common in the snow, the twilight lit only by periodic lampposts. Just beautiful.

## David Hammons’ Snowball Sale

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/17547w_hammonsweb1.jpg)

David Hammons, “Bliz-aard Ball Sale” (1983) (image from tate.org) 

For this piece, the artist stood on a sidewalk in Harlem and sold snowballs whose prices depended on their size, a conceptual gesture that commented on commodity culture. Also, it’s fun, and super winter-y.

Any other works that just scream snow to you? Leave them below, I’d love to collect some more.