Advance of the Skirmish Line

1864

Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and black and white chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.2 × 45.6 cm (10 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.121.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. I, no. 210

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, New York, by gift of Homer, 1904; Edmund Robbins Zalinski, his son, by bequest, 1909; Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski II, his son, Philadelphia, by gift, 1955; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1925

  • Original Drawings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, 1925

1997

  • Winslow Homer and the Civil War: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 17 July-21 Sept. 1997.

Bibliography

2005

  • Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 1. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 260, no. 210.

Inscriptions

upper right in graphite: 6; across bottom in graphite: Advance of the Skirmish Line; lower right in brown ink: 18 x 32 lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: G

Wikidata ID

Q64640347

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