Object Details
- Artist
- Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910
- Exhibition Label
- In 1868, Winslow Homer took up the subject of people who worked in textile mills. Mill operatives’ activities were organized by bells that rang throughout the day. Before mid-century, Americans viewed factories as places where respectable folk—mostly women—could earn a decent income and make a contribution to the nation’s industrial transformation. By the time Homer created his picture, native-born farmwives and their daughters had long been absent from the mills. Recent immigrants and the desperately poor replaced them at the looms, the only takers for work that offered the barest sustenance.
- The Great American Hall of Wonders, 2011
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Ray Austrian Collection, gift of Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James A. Austrian
- 1868
- Object number
- 1996.63.69
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Graphic Arts-Print
- Medium
- wood engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- image: 9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.5 x 35.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure group
- Occupation\industry\manufacturing
- Landscape\New England
- Architecture Exterior\industry\factory
- Literature\Harper's Weekly
- Record ID
- saam_1996.63.69
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79e0bb1a7-0c26-486d-80ab-da09a6beb774
