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Children Sitting on a Fence, 1874. Various graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium weight, slightly textured gray wove paper.
Various graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium weight, slightly textured gray wove paper · 19.3 × 23.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Children Sitting on a Fence
- Artist
- Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Various graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium weight, slightly textured gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.3 × 23.9 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1836–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.