Winslow Homer, Man with a Scythe
Gift of Mrs. Charles Savage Homer, Jr. · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Winslow Homer

Man with a Scythe

ca. 1869

Current Collection

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

New York, United States

Medium
Brush and oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
43.5 × 55.9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-119939

Horizontal view of a figure of a man with a scythe under his left arm in the foreground and a thinly-painted grouping of two men, with rake, pitchfork, and child in right background, all walking across a sloping meadow at dusk. Grouping of large trees at left middleground, between the foreground meadow and wheat field, which leads to a blue range of hills in the background and a pale afterglow in…

Provenance

Gift of Mrs. Charles Savage Homer, Jr.

Registry history

  • ca. 1869 — Recorded in the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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