Sheep
Winslow Homer
1878
Medium
Dark graphite and white gouache on vat-dyed wove paper
Dimensions
Sight: 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (8.9 x 21.6 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Molly Flagg Knudtsen, 2001
Accession Number
2001.608.2
Tags
Sheep
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...