THE BEAN PICKER
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The Bean Picker

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

ca. 1875

Medium
Brush and oil paint on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
57.6 × 40.2 cm (22 11/16 × 15 13/16 in.)
Culture
USA
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

Vertical view of a girl in a violet dress and white sunbonnet picking beans from one of a group of closely set bean plants. Behind her, a cornstalk; more bean plants to left.