More than 6000 works to choose from, on line!: http://art.thewalters.org/browsecollections.aspx
I recommend that you start with Jean-Leon Gerome’s “Duel after the Masquerade”: http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=12697
Not only is it a painting of snow, it’s a great painting, and was voted so by the citizens of Baltimore 100 years ago.
Also, when Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, paid a visit to the Walters a few months back, he stopped dead in his tracks in front of “Duel after the Masquerade.”
Why? Because there is a near twin to it in the Hermitage.
And did I hear Mikhail say ours was better?
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Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum since 1994, has been with the Baltimore institution for more than 20 years. A native of Minnesota, Gary received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976 before working as Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.