White Mare (c. 1868): Art, History and Details

White Mare (c. 1868) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In August 1868 Winslow Homer, then working as a free-lance illustrator, visited the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As early as the 1820s, American artists used the White Mountains as a setting for landscape paintings. Unlike Thomas Cole (1802-1848) and Asher Durand (1796-1886), who focused on the unspoiled wilderness, Homer turned his attention to other tourists. He made this oil sketch as a study for the horse in a large oil painting The Bridal Path, White Mountains (1868; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts).

Object facts

• Title: White Mare
• Date: c. 1868
• Creator attribution: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
• Culture: America
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 32.5 x 45 x 4.5 cm (12 13/16 x 17 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 20 x 32.6 cm (7 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1958.33

Collection credit

Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.

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