Snap the Whip

Snap the Whip
Artist Winslow Homer
Year 1872
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 56 cm × 91.4 cm (22 in × 36.0 in)
Location Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Snap the Whip is a 1872 oil painting by Winslow Homer.[1] It depicts a group of children playing a game in a field in front of an old red schoolhouse. With more of America's population moving to cities, this portrait depicts the simplicity of rural agrarian life that Americans began to leave behind in the post-Civil war era.[2]

Homer spent several summers in New York's Hudson Valley, and is said to have been inspired to paint this scene by local boys playing at the Hurley schoolhouse.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Winslow Homer 1836". Butler Institute of American Art. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  2. ↑ "Winslow Homer: Snap the Whip". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  3. ↑ "WINSLOW HOMER AND HOUGHTON FARM". hamiltonauctiongalleries.com. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  4. ↑ "The rose discarded - A plaque along the rail trail running parallel to Route 209 in Hurley notes how the great American artist Winslow Homer spent a series of summers in the 1870s sketching and painting in our area. In the nearby hamlet out in the...". Retrieved 2016-07-12.
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