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Croquet Scene, 1866
Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 66.2 cm (15 7/8 x 26 1/16 in.)
Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund, 1942.35
Currently not on display
In 1865 Winslow Homer completed the first of five paintings he would devote to the subject of croquet. Croquet Scene is probably the fourth in the series and the most compositionally striking in its use of light and color to define space. Homer's interest in depicting croquet coincided with the rise in popularity of the game among the upper classes in America. His choice of subject matter and his decision to paint the subject in series bespeak his modernity, as does the lack of explicit narrative in the paintings. These works also have close ties to illustration, both Homer's own and those in croquet rule books, and thereby link the artist's early career as an illustrator to his emerging one as a painter.
| Classifications: | american arts, painting. |
| Subjects: | leisure, men, weather/seasons, women. |
| Media: | oil. |
| Artists: | Winslow Homer. |
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