Driving Home the Corn
November 13, 1858
Medium
figures
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, Jr.
Accession Number
1947-4-35
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Driving Home the Corn** Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910), November 13, 1858* *Figures; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips Jr.* Winslow Homer, one of America's foremost realist painters, created *Driving Home the Corn* in his career on November 13, 1858. At just 22 old, Homer was honing his skills as an illustrator magazines like *Ballou's Pictorial* Boston, capturing the rhythms of everyday rural life. This work, classified as "figures," depicts farm laborers transporting harvested corn—a poignant snapshot of mid-19th-century American agrarian toil amid ...