For to Be a Farmer's Boy
Winslow Homer · 1887 · Transparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
For to Be a Farmer's Boy is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated 1887. Transparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“For to Be a Farmer's Boy” (1887) is observed weather, sea, or work. Homer started as an illustrator and later painted the water with very little idealizing.
About the artist
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was an American painter of the sea, rural work, and the Civil War. He started as an illustrator and later painted the Maine coast in blunt, observed weather.
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