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The image displays curved and angular lines creating an abstract composition hinting at humanoid shapes and possible vegetation or trees. The lines suggest motion and activity, with shapes resembling drums and sticks scattered around. The overall impression is of a gathering or event, with figures depicted standing or moving, along with lines indicating movement or sound waves from musical instruments.

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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

End of the March [recto]1862

graphite on bristol board

sheet: 9.1 x 12.4 cm (3 9/16 x 4 7/8 in.)

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1996.121.4.a

Winslow Homer drew this in 1862, aged 26. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. More about this work

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Format

Archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm cotton paper, with a white border.

Size
Size
20 × 16 in · image 17¾ × 13
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gsm
Price
$56

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About this work

The image displays curved and angular lines creating an abstract composition hinting at humanoid shapes and possible vegetation or trees. The lines suggest motion and activity, with shapes resembling drums and sticks scattered around. The overall impression is of a gathering or event, with figures depicted standing or moving, along with lines indicating movement or sound waves from musical instruments.

Description from the National Gallery of Art.

Winslow Homer drew this in 1862, aged 26. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

How it was made

Graphite
Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.

Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910 · Born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Prouts Neck, Maine.

Homer began as an illustrator, covering the Civil War for Harper’s Weekly, and first made his name in painting with scenes of soldiers and country life. A stay at the fishing village of Cullercoats on the English coast in 1881–82 turned him towards the sea, and from 1883 he lived at Prouts Neck, Maine, painting the Atlantic in all weathers. He was also a fluent watercolourist in the Adirondacks, Canada and the Caribbean, and The Gulf Stream draws on those southern journeys.

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Public domain. The National Gallery of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number
1996.121.4.a
Credit
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Type
Drawing
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