A Call for Volunteers
Cooper Hewitt

A Call for Volunteers

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · October 20, 1886

Charcoal, red chalk, pen and black ink on off-white wove paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Thick charcoal line divides sheet horizontally into two sections. Upper section contains three groups of figures: large, indistinct one at right; woman with two children, center, moving left; and the third group is in chaotic motion, at left; verso: at bottom right are ornamental motifs; at center is a blotter of two very rough sketches of people running, beside a vertical line.

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