Women Working in a Field (1867): Art, History and Details

Women Working in a Field (1867) 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 December 1866, Winslow Homer sailed from Boston for a year of study in France. Since the early 1850s he had known the principles of French painting, particularly the outdoor style of the Barbizon school. While in France, Homer spent most of his time working in Paris and the rural village of Cernay-la-Ville in Picardy, about 40 miles from the French capital. This oil sketch was probably painted there.

Object facts

• Title: Women Working in a Field
• Date: 1867
• Creator attribution: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
• Culture: United States
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 30.5 x 45.5 x 4.5 cm (12 x 17 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 17 x 32.2 cm (6 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1992.315

Collection credit

Gift of Elizabeth Whitney Evans and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.

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