School by Winslow Homer by Studio POPPY

About "School by Winslow Homer"

by Studio POPPY

About the artwork

School Time (ca.1874) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art.
Winslow Homer (Boston, February 24, 1836 - Prout's Neck, Maine, September 29, 1910) was an American lithographer, draftsman, and painter. Considered by many to be the most important American painter of the 19th century,[1] Homer was a representative of realistic genre painting. He was an excellent animal painter and made many watercolors. He was famous for his seascapes.
Winslow Homer trained in lithography and then worked as an illustrator for newspapers, first in Boston and later in New York, where he lived from 1859.

In 1861 he made a brief study of working in oils. He was commissioned that same year by the still fairly young political weekly Harper's Weekly to make drawings to accompany reports on the American Civil War, to which the magazine devoted much attention.

The sketches and drawings he made at the front were later elaborated in oils. The illustrations were initially quite superficial and anecdotal in nature, but towards the end of the war they gained more depth and showed an understanding of the meaning and far-reaching consequences of the battle, as evidenced by, among others, the painting shown here, which would earn him membership in the Academy.

After the war, in the late 1860s and the decade that followed, he produced a large number of works, both newspaper illustrations and paintings. He sought inspiration in the popular seaside towns of Massachusetts and New Jerse