Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

 

Winslow Homer. was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer

Snap the Whip
1872
Oil on canvas
56 x 91.4 cm
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/winslow_homer_1836.htm

Snap the Whip depicts a group of children playing crack the whip in a field in front of a small red schoolhouse. With more of America's population moving to cities, the portrait depicts the simplicity of rural agrarian life that Americans were beginning to leave behind in the post-Civil War era, evoking a mood of nostalgia. Homer painted a second version, of similar date, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In this, he retains the schoolhouse but the background hillscape is removed, making the location less regionally specific.

Snap the Whip
1872
Oil on canvas

61 x 81 cm

The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11140