Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 67.187.131
Date:
1865
Notes:
"Watercolors by Winslow Homer: the color of light," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, fig. 14, pg. 29.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Hendrick, Gordon, "Life & Work of Winslow Homer," N.Y.: Abrams, 1979.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 8.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 433.
"Larkin, Susan G., "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work," Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2005, fig. 9.
Summary:
A lone farmer stands with his back to the viewer as he wields his scythe across tall stalks of wheat, leaving the ground behind him covered with fallen wheat. The sky is a clear blue and the sun is high in the sky creating bright highlights.
