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Winslow Homer

Associated Names
Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

The image is a pencil sketch of a horse with a harness and gear on its back. The horse is depicted in a side profile view. The background includes a horizon line with a suggestion of landscape features such as a fence line and possible trees or posts. The sketch features minimal and linear brushstrokes, focusing on outlines and key details of the horse. Light hatching is used for shadows and depth. The color palette is limited to off-white paper and gray pencil lines.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.4 x 14.3 cm (4 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.121.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. I, no. 208

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

  • Originial 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. 258, no. 208.

Inscriptions

upper right in graphite: 13; center verso in graphite: #3 (reversed)

Wikidata ID

Q64640250

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