Christmas In America - Alphonse Mucha Holiday Card

"Christmas in America" is a beautiful Alphose Mucha painting from 1919. In this painting, a female figure, who is wearing a wreath of evergreen branches, looks out at the viewer. She holds a candle, fruits and nuts in her hand. The composition and colours are very calm, straightforward, gentle, and simple. The woman personifies the goodness and peace that embodies the holiday spirit. May your holiday and new year be filled with such goodness! This card is also available in Red. Alphonse Maria Mucha is most often remembered for the dominant role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century. As a struggling and relatively unknown artist of Czech origin, Mucha achieved immediate fame when, in December 1894, he accepted a commission to create a graphic to advertise the greatest actress of the time, Sarah Bernhardt. That first widely circulated artwork and those that followed were so revolutionary in concept and style that Mucha's art became widely known throughout Europe as 'le style Mucha'.