Perhaps Winslow Homer's most beloved and popular painting was Snap the Whip, created with oil on canvas in 1872. Children embodied innocence and the promise of America's future and were depicted by many artists and writers during the 1870s.

Winslow Homer (1836 -1910) Snap the Whip, 1872 Oil on canvas, 12 x 20 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. This iconic painting is the most reproduced and written about painting in American art. It depicts boys playing in the yard of the Eagle's Nest schoolhouse on Hurley Mountain Road. In the distance is the steeple of the Hurley Reformed Church.

Every former schoolchild can relate to these students’ struggle to study despite the lure of sunshine, spring grass, and outdoor play. Such closely observed realism was natural to Winslow Homer, whose career began as an illustrator following daily life …

The Red School House is related to a series of school subjects that Winslow Homer painted from 1871 to 1874. Though he varied the composition and narrative emphasis across the series, three elements remain consistent: a small red schoolhouse, its young female teacher, and a luminous mountain setting.

A hill rises behind the schoolhouse and off the top right corner of the canvas. A sliver of white clouds against a pale blue sky cuts across the top left corner. The artist signed the painting in …

2011年10月1日 · ‘The Country School’ was created in 1871 by Winslow Homer in Realism style. Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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From the late 1850s until his death in 1910, Winslow Homer produced a body of work distinguished by its thoughtful expression and its independence from artistic conventions. A man of multiple talents, Homer excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting, and watercolor.

2014年5月18日 · Winslow Homer painted this scene of a country school in 1871, nearly two decades after Massachusetts became the first state to pass a compulsory education law in the United States. According to custom, boys sat on one side of the room, girls on the other.

2015年2月24日 · The wood engravings on display include images of hunters in the Adirondacks, children playing outdoors and in the school yard and skating in New York’s Central Park, favorite subjects for the American master artist and include titles such as Skating on the Ladies’ Skating Pond in Central Park, New York, Homeward Bound and Trapping in the ...