North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road Raleigh North Carolina 27607 Accession Number: 52.9.16
Date:
1875
Notes:
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 48.
North Carolina Museum of Art, 1989.
Goodrich, Lloyd, "Winslow Homer," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973.
Collection catalog, "American Paintings to 1900," 1966.
Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 94.
Image on file.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 116.
Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 94.
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Summary:
Farm landscape with one African-American boy pulling on a rope which is attached to a calf while two other boys watch. Two large haystacks and a fence are behind them. In the right distance a man pulls a white cow.