Children Sitting on a Fence
Winslow Homer
1874
Medium
Various graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium weight, slightly textured gray wove paper
Dimensions
19.3 × 23.9 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45349
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...