In the spring of 1862, Winslow Homer ... field of wheat as tall and endless as the troops that fell at Antietam and the other battlefields. He executed the scene, titled “The Veteran in a New ...

A veteran returns after war. Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frank B. Porter A final gallery of landscapes returns ...

A household name in the US, Winslow Homer created dramatic images ... emotions embodied in the painting The Veteran in a New Field (1865), says co-curator Herdrich. "The veteran has cast aside ...

the ”Croquet Player” from 1865. This is a small, dark canvas that the artist himself denigrated by writing on the back, ”Winslow Homer would like to have the privilege of painting a better ...