A Call for Volunteers
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910
October 20, 1886
Classification
seascapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
Accession Number
1912-12-210
About this artwork
Thick charcoal line divides sheet horizontally into two sections. Upper section contains three groups of figures: large, indistinct one at right; woman with two children, center, moving left; and the third group is in chaotic motion, at left; verso: at bottom right are ornamental motifs; at center is a blotter of two very rough sketches of people running, beside a vertical line.