Light pours over a woman and a dozen children of different ages standing in small groups near a boxy, red schoolhouse in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale or tanned skin and wear clothing in earthy tones of brown, black, white, and pale yellow. The woman stands at the lower center of the composition on a dirt-packed area in front of the building. She wears a white hat tied with a black ribbon under the back of her hair and a long black dress. Two girls in floppy hats, each wearing ankle-length dresses, and a young boy holding a pail stand around her. The other children wear…
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School Time

painter Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

c. 1874

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 31.75 × 48.9 cm (12 1/2 × 19 1/4 in.) ; framed: 39.85 × 56.83 × 4.76 cm (15 11/16 × 22 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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