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Our National Winter Exercise - Skating

1866

Winslow Homer

(American, 1836–1910)
Culture
America
Medium
wood engraving
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1420
Catalogue raisonné
Foster 215
Public Domain
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A horizontally oriented wood engraving depicts a crowded frozen pond. Foreground figures include two women with medium-dark and light skin tones skating left in voluminous skirts. To their left, a couple skates away, while a figure on the right lies face-down. In the background, dozens of tiny skaters drift under a textured gray sky. Fine hatching defines the ice's reflective surface, capturing the dynamic energy of winter recreation.

Our National Winter Exercise - Skating

1866

Winslow Homer

(American, 1836–1910)
America

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