Mounted Cavalry Officer
Medium
figures
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
Accession Number
1912-12-155-a
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Mounted Cavalry Officer** *Winslow Homer, 1862* Created in 1862 amid the American Civil War, Homer's *Mounted Cavalry Officer* captures intensity of the conflict through the poised figure of a soldier on horseback. Homer, a pioneering American Realist (1836–1910), rose to prominence as a Harper's Weekly illustrator, embedding himself with Union troops to document the war's raw human drama. This work, classified among sculptural or figural studies in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection, reflects his early mastery of dynamic forms, gifted by his brother Charles Savage Homer, ...