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The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving on newsprint, 35.1 x 22.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington     Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Museum…

The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington     Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     Homer,…

The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving on paper, 34.6 × 22.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Published June 11, 1870 by Harper’s Weekly (American, 1857-1916). Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington…

The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving, 35.2 x 23.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York A young woman sounds the call for the noonday meal for the men laboring in the distant field. The wind pulls her skirts outward behind…

Blowing the Horn at Seaside (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Standing in the brilliant sunlight of midday, a young woman blows a metal horn to summon the farmhands in the nearby…

Croquet Scene (1866)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Croquet Scene 1866 Oil on canvas, 40.3 × 66.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of America’s foremost painters, Winslow Homer began his career as an illustrator during the Civil War. In the late 1860s, he turned…

Home, Sweet Home (c.1863)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Home, Sweet Home c.1863 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the…

Dad’s Coming! (1873)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dad’s Coming! 1873 Oil on wood, 22.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled…

Rue de village (c.1917)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue de village (Village street) c.1917 Oil on canvas, 53 x 76.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This view of around 1917 depicts the suburb of Sannois in the north-west of Paris, an area which the artist painted repeatedly…