Harvest Scene
Artist: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
Original Dimensions: 10" x 24"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1873) "Homer’s preoccupation with idyllic agrarian subjects and direct observation of nature recalls those of French Barbizon School artists, such as Jean-François Millet, who worked near the Fontainebleau forest beginning in the 1830s. Homer might have seen their paintings in his native Boston and during his trip to Paris in 1866–67. Characteristic of Homer’s art of this period is his use of direct, overhead light to define the middle ground. Small figures harvesting hay are merely suggested with quick dabs of paint. Calligraphic tree trunks and spreading branches form an irregular gridlike pattern against the sky." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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