Four Boys on a Beach
Winslow Homer
1873
Medium
graphite with watercolor and gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 14.1 × 34 cm (5 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1979.19.1
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...