Snap the Whip
Winslow Homer
1872
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
12 x 20 in. (30.5 x 50.8 cm) Framed: 24 x 32 x 5 in. (61 x 81.3 x 12.7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1950
Accession Number
50.41
Tags
BoysPlayingGames
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...