Rebel Works at Yorktown

1862

Winslow Homer

Associated Names
Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

The image shows a group of soldiers lying on the ground in a line, preparing for action. The soldiers wear blue caps. The background features a horizon line with trees and the scene is depicted with minimal, sketchy brushstrokes in shades of brown and blue. The soldiers are seen from behind, with their bodies angled slightly towards the horizon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.3 x 25.2 cm (6 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.121.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. I, no. 173

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. 212, no. 173.

Inscriptions

upper right in graphite: 12; lower right in red pencil: Rebel works / at Yorktown, / April 62; lower right in graphite: 16

Wikidata ID

Q64640247

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