User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy)/Sunday Morning in Virginia compact version
| Sunday Morning in Virginia | |
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| Artist | Winslow Homer |
| Year | 1877 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 46.8 cm × 61 cm (18.4 in × 24 in) |
| Location | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati |
Sunday Morning in Virginia is an 1877 oil painting by Winslow Homer depicting a Reconstruction era scene of African American children learning to read from the Bible. is an 1876 painting by American artist, Winslow Homer. It was one of several works that Homer created during a mid-1870s visit to Virginia, where he had served as a war correspondent during the Civil War.[1]
Scholars have noted that the painting shares a compositional structure with A Visit from the Old Mistress, whose composition in turn is taken from Homer's earlier painting Prisoners from the Front, which depicts a group of captive Confederate soldiers defiantly regarding a Union officer.[2]
It, along with Homer's other paintings of black southern life from this period, have been praised as an "invaluable record of an important segment of life in Virginia during the Reconstruction."[1]
Citations
edit- ^ a b Wood, Peter; Dalton, Karen (1989). "Winslow Homer's images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction years". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. 49 (3). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: 3–4.
- ^ Calo, Mary Ann (1980). "Winslow Homer's Visits to Virginia during Reconstruction". American Art Journal. 12 (1). Kennedy Galleries Inc.: 4–27.
External links
edit- Sunday Morning in Virginia in the online catalog of the Cincinnati Art Museum
- Sunday Morning in Virginia on Google Arts and Culture
- Wikidata entry