# White Mare, in Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer painted this in about 1868, aged about 27. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In August 1868 Winslow Homer, then working as a free-lance illustrator, visited the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As early as the 1820s, American artists used the White Mountains as a setting for landscape paintings.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1868
- Medium: oil on panel
- Dimensions: Framed: 32.5 x 45 x 4.5 cm (12 13/16 x 17 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 20 x 32.6 cm (7 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.33
- 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

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