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Painting, Two Girls with Sunbonnets In a Field
This is a Painting. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1878 and we acquired it in 1918. Its medium is brush and oil paint on canvas. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Homer’s interest in depicting children in rural settings extended throughout the 1870s, culminating in the paintings executed at Lawson Valentine’s summer home, Houghton Farm. Homer was a regular guest from 1876 to 1878, occupying a studio and giving drawing lessons to Valentine’s two daughters. The models Homer used for this painting were probably the daughters of workers on the farm, who would not normally have dressed in an eighteenth-century style. Homer brought outfits including bonnets and aprons for his young sitters to wear, which enhanced a romantic impression of childhood linked to the popular nursery rhyme Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Sheep, first published in about 1852.
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
Mrs. Charles Savage Homer Jr..
It is credited Gift of Mrs. Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
Its dimensions are
39.7 × 57.2 cm (15 5/8 × 22 1/2 in.)
Cite this object as
Painting, Two Girls with Sunbonnets In a Field; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; brush and oil paint on canvas; 39.7 × 57.2 cm (15 5/8 × 22 1/2 in.); Gift of Mrs. Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1918-20-5
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
