The Dinner Horn

published 1870

after Winslow Homer

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

Winslow Homer

Artist After, American, 1836 - 1910

This is a drawing of a person blowing a horn outside a building. The image features a figure at the entrance of a building calling into the distance with a horn. The person is dressed in late 19th-century clothing. A cat is walking nearby. The building has wooden siding, an open entrance, and light casting shadows inside. Ivy trails along the roof's edge. Fields stretch out towards the horizon under a light sky with clouds.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1958

  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958-1959, no. 231 (not shown in New York).

Bibliography

1936

  • Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer in 'Harper's Weekly' and other periodicals." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 40 (1936): 842-852. Separately published New York: New York Public Library, 1936.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.215.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.200.

Wikidata ID

Q65218738

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