Soldiers felling sapling, and weaving saplings into baskets [verso]

1862

Winslow Homer

Associated Names
Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

This is a drawing of various sketches related to woodcutting or carpentry. The drawing features several pencil sketches on tan paper. On the left side, there are depictions of a barrel or basket, and beneath it, several outline sketches of figures engaged in activities involving woodwork. The right side of the drawing shows a figure bent over a large beam or branch. The sketches are simple, with minimal detail, capturing the basic form and movement of the figures and objects involved in woodwork-related activities.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on straw paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.9 × 37.7 cm (8 5/8 × 14 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.121.7.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. I, no. 168-V

Associated Artworks

The image shows a pencil sketch on textured brown paper. The sketch depicts a scene with a large spherical object on the ground. The sketch has a low horizon line with conical tent shapes and vertical lines suggesting trees in the background. The trees and tents are drawn with loose pencil strokes. The color palette consists of natural tan paper and soft black pencil lines. The drawing style is rough and sketchy, with varying intensity of shading. A small figure near the base of the balloon appears to gesture upwards.

Intrepid [recto]

Winslow Homer

1862

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

Bibliography

2005

  • Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 1. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 208, no. 168-V.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: No. 10; lower right in graphite: C

Wikidata ID

Q64640243

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