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For to Be a Farmer's Boy

For to Be a Farmer's Boy — Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer · For to Be a Farmer's Boy · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain / CC0.
For to Be a Farmer's Boy — Winslow Homer

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago as Winslow Homer.

The record

  • AttributionWinslow Homer — other records naming Winslow Homer
  • Date1887
  • Classificationwatercolor
  • MediumTransparent and opaque watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on thick, rough-textured ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)
  • DepartmentPrints and Drawings
  • Held byArt Institute of Chicago

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Winslow Homer · For to Be a Farmer's Boy · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain / CC0.

Source read 2026-09-20 · Published 2026-09-20

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