Title: Winslow Homer
Posted: 11/16/2011 09:58 AM
Category: Weekly Blog Entries
Description:
This painting was by Winslow Homer in 1836-1910. The painting was done after the Civil War. The farmer in the painting had fought in the Civil War, which makes him a veteran. This painting has symbolism in it represent the wheat that is dead that is caused by the war. There is alive wheat and blue sky which shows there is still hope and future.
picturingamerica.neh.gov/
picturingamerica.neh.gov/