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Drawing, Artists Sketching in the White Mountains
This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1868 and we acquired it in 1912. Its medium is graphite on off-white wove paper, blackened on verso for tracing. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Artists painting under shaded easels, “looking like mammoth mushrooms
dotted all over the landscape,” were a frequent sight in North Conway
and the White Mountains. This sketch dating from July 1868 of two artists
painting the landscape became Homer’s source for his oil painting Artists
Sketching in the White Mountains (1868). Some critics have interpreted
Homer’s painting of himself, with his artist-colleagues Homer Martin
and John Lee Fitch, fueled by wine rather than by awesome sites, as
a satire of the Hudson River landscape artists. In 1869, Homer adapted
the drawing for the illustration The Artist in the Country, published
in Appleton’s Journal in June 1869, where he exchanged the second artist
for a charming female tourist looking over the shoulder of the painter,
identified as Homer by his mustache and the initials on his knapsack.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
It is credited Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
Its dimensions are
14.8 x 21.1 cm (5 13/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamp in black ink, lower center: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration [Lugt, 457d]
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, throughout: W[hite] / Y[ellow] / B[rown] [Color notations]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Artists Sketching in the White Mountains; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; graphite on off-white wove paper, blackened on verso for tracing; 14.8 x 21.1 cm (5 13/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1912-12-263
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
