LWD Art Appreciation ~ December 2024

This month the LWD Art Appreciation selections are festive and seasonal. We start with an O. Henry story and wrap things up with screwball comedy set on a farm at Christmas time. Let’s kick off the holidays and end 2024 with some fun choices.

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ART APPRECIATION
DECEMBER 2024

SHORT STORY

This a classic Christmas story and even if you’ve read it before, it’s worth a re-read.

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

“The Gift of the Magi” is a short story, about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation during the Christmas season.

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ARTIST

Instead of selecting a single artist this month, I thought I’d share some well-known Christmas artwork.

Top 15 Christmas Artworks From Throughout History

The 15 artworks that define Christmas

Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard Van Honthorst

JAZZ COMPOSER

Rather than select a single jazz composer this month, I’ve put together a Spotify playlist with a collection of jazz inspired Christmas music. Enjoy!

Spotify Playlist:

SCREWBALL COMEDY

Christmas in Connecticut

Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country’s most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can’t even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?