Artist:
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836 - 1910)
The Dinner Horn
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
Date: 1870
Dimensions:
13 3/4 × 9 in. (34.9 × 22.9 cm)
Accession number: 92.3.7
Curatorial RemarksPublished in Harper's Weekly, 1860s and 1870s;Homer's print of a young woman summoning workers to dinner belongs to a series of oil paintings of the same subject that he made in the 1870s, when he became increasingly interested in depicting rural life.