1867
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Women Working in a Field is a 1867 unspecified by Winslow Homer, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows three women bent over a field, their skirts hitched up as they gather harvest. The field is dry and cracked under a bright sky. Homer painted this in France, not America. It’s one of his rare scenes of women at hard labor. Most of his famous work shows men outdoors or soldiers. The women’s faces are hidden, just like their hands in the grain. This feels like a quick study, not a finished picture. Look up Winslow Homer to see his famous Civil War scenes next.
In December 1866, Winslow Homer sailed from Boston for a year of study in France. Since the early 1850s he had known the principles of French painting, particularly the outdoor style of the Barbizon school. While in France, Homer spent most of his time working in Paris and the rural village of Cernay-la-Ville in Picardy, about 40 miles from the French capital. This oil sketch was probably painted there.
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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects.
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