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Drawing, Study for "Snap the Whip"
This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1872 and we acquired it in 1912. Its medium is recto: black and white chalk, touches of light orange chalk on green wove paper verso: graphite, and black and white chalk on green wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Perhaps one of Homer’s most loved images, Snap the Whip, which depicts the children’s game, conjures an idyll of perfect freedom from adult concerns. At a time when major cities were brimming with vice, corruption, and pollution, images of rural innocence enticed readers of the popular weeklies to take sojourns into the countryside. Homer’s published illustrations of children engaged in rural activities and games paralleled a literary trend which celebrated the joys of childhood.
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
Sheet: 23.5 x 42 cm (9 1/4 x 16 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Recto: Stamped in black in, at lower left: "Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration"; Lugt, 457d.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for "Snap the Whip"; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; recto: black and white chalk, touches of light orange chalk on green wove paper verso: graphite, and black and white chalk on green wove paper; Sheet: 23.5 x 42 cm (9 1/4 x 16 9/16 in.) ; Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1912-12-82
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
