# Autumn, in Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer painted this in 1877, aged 41. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A fashionably dressed young woman in a black jacket and round hat stands on a hillside carpeted with fallen leaves, lifting her ruffled skirt to reveal its sky-blue lining and holding a basket overflowing with orange foliage. She looks straight out at us.

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## The work

- Date: 1877
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 97.1 x 58.9 cm (38 1/4 x 23 3/16 in.) framed: 126.4 x 91.1 x 7.9 cm (49 3/4 x 35 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985.64.22
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Winslow Homer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/winslow-homer), American, 1836–1910

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.

16 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Winslow Homer's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-winslow-homer?hang=748) (8 works)
- [More American Gilded Age](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/american-gilded-age?hang=748) (67 works)
- [19th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-united-states?hang=748) (198 works)

## Get it

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