# My Day at Home

**William H. Howe** (born Ravenna, OH 1846-died Bronxville, NY 1929)  
1906  
oil on canvas  
24 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (61.3 x 76.6 cm)

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1909.7.30. [The museum's record](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10826).

## About this work

William Henry Howe made a name for himself in France and the United States as a painter of animals. His farm scenes provided patrons with an antidote to the unnerving changes in American society brought about by industrialization. The prize bull and placid cow in these paintings evoke the patriarchal and matriarchal roles of a nineteenth-century household, and hark back to an ideal of agrarian America that seemed distant from the urban bustle of the Gilded Age.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

William H. Howe painted this in 1906, aged 60. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [William H. Howe](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/william-h-howe)

born Ravenna, OH 1846-died Bronxville, NY 1929

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- The artist was 60
- Real size: about 24 × 30 in (61 × 77 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 16 × 20 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 20th century
- Subjects: Animals, Architecture, Farms, Cattle
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1863.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/1863/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/my-day-at-home-si-saam-1909-7-30).