Winslow Homer / The Briarwood Pipe / 1864

Winslow Homer
The Briarwood Pipe
1864
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Creator Name: Homer, Winslow
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1836 - 1910
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Winslow Homer
Title: The Briarwood Pipe
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1864
Creation End Date: 1864
Creation Date: 1864
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 42.8cm x 37.5cm
Inscriptions: signed lower left: Homer 64
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1944.524
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: James T. Fields, by descent to Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams, Boston (1944).
Context: Sent by the magazine Harper's Weekly to make sketches of the Civil War, Homer focused on the leisurely life of soldiers away from the bloody reality of battle. Here, two Union soldiers relax at a campground, carving wooden pipes. Before the adoption ofstandard blue and gray uniforms, many Northerners wore colorful Zouave costumes. Despite being cumbersome and dangerously visible on the battlefield, these outfits served an important symbolic function, for they imitated the uniforms of the courageous Berber tribesman who fought a decade earlier in the Crimean War (1853-1856).
AMICA ID: CMA_.1944.524
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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