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Two Ladies

Winslow Homer American
1880
Not on view
During the late 1870s Homer, the celebrated painter and illustrator of the American Civil War, occasionally portrayed fashionably dressed women and shepherdesses inspired by eighteenth-century Rococo porcelain and paintings. In 1880 he executed several watercolors of elegant young women seen singly or in pairs, as in this sheet. Such ingratiating glimpses of frivolous feminine pastimes would give way to more dour accounts of working women’s lives in views of Cullercoats and Tynemouth on England’s North Sea coast, where Homer worked in 1881–82.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Two Ladies
  • Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
  • Date: 1880
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
  • Dimensions: 6 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (17.6 x 20.2 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Estate of Florence Baird Meyer, in her memory, 1918
  • Object Number: 18.123.3
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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George Blake's Letter (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. IX), Winslow Homer American, Wood engraving
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