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Description: Children Sitting on a Fence

TitleChildren Sitting on a Fence

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1874

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsVarious graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium-weight, slightly textured gray wove paper

Dimensions7 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (19.3 x 23.9 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/45349

Accession number1927.3522

SubjectsChildren in artFences in artHats in art

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Technical Commentaries: Drawing

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

In his 1874 treatise on watercolor technique, Aaron Penley insisted, “As no one can write a language correctly before he has learnt to spell and is acquainted with grammar, so can no person be able to portray correctly or readily effects in Nature, unless he has been previously taught to draw.” …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.018

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14102&redirecttoanchor=10280

Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Drawing--TechniqueWatercolor painting--Technique

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