A woman in a white dress kneels on the grass, examining small flowers intently.
Name/Title
Girl Picking Clover (Houghton Farm)
Entry/Object ID
992.4
Description
Homer spent much of the summer of 1878 at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, New York. He made many watercolors and drawings that summer depicting rural children chatting over a fence, picking fruit, leaning against a tree, or lying in the grass, lazily enjoying their pastoral surroundings - images of a farm life that was slipping away in the post-Civil War rush toward urbanization.
