Credit Line: Purchased by the Canton Museum of Art in memory of
James C. and Barbara J. Koppe
Made/Created
Artist
Winslow Homer
Date made
circa 1878
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Frame Size
Height
16-3/8 in
Width
21-5/8 in
Dimension Description
Image Size
Height
7 in
Width
12-3/4 in
Interpretative Labels
Label
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.
