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Croquet Scene  1866

by Winslow Homer

One of America’s foremost painters, Winslow Homer began his career as an illustrator during the Civil War. In the late 1860s, he turned his acute observational and technical skills toward oil painting, depicting figures bathed in sunlight out-of-doors. These early paintings, often executed in series, feature scenes of upper-class leisure pursuits—in this case, women and me...
Size: 
40.3 × 66.2 cm (15 7/8 × 26 1/16 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago