Snow is not a weather condition we’re used to in Ireland. When it does come, we tend to react with equal parts delight and frustration. Irish snow means unscheduled school closures, inexperienced drivers on snow-bound roads, brief snowball fights and speedily erected snowmen, because only rarely does a ‘snow day’ turn into anything more than a snow morning, or a snow afternoon in this country. Irish artists have captured some stunning snow scenes over the years, although the genre remains a minor category of Irish landscape art. Here is a selection of the best to be found in Irish public collections.
Sir John Lavery, The Mountain Path (1919) Butler…