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The image shows an unfinished sketch viewed from a slightly elevated perspective, portraying a scene with trees, brush lines, two figures in uniforms in a wooded area with stumps and a fallen tree trunk. The sketch features loose pencil or charcoal strokes in a monochromatic color palette, creating a rough and spontaneous quality reminiscent of a quick field sketch.
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The image shows an unfinished sketch viewed from a slightly elevated perspective, portraying a scene with trees, brush lines, two figures in uniforms in a wooded area with stumps and a fallen tree trunk. The sketch features loose pencil or charcoal strokes in a monochromatic color palette, creating a rough and spontaneous quality reminiscent of a quick field sketch.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Advance of the Skirmish Line

Winslow Homer

Date
1864
Medium
graphite and black and white chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26.2 × 45.6 cm (10 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1996.121.1
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • group
  • figure
  • Realist
  • Civil War
  • military
  • Civil War soldiers
  • Union Army
Provenance

Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, New York, by gift of Homer, 1904; Edmund Robbins Zalinski, his son, by bequest, 1909; Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski II, his son, Philadelphia, by gift, 1955; gift to NGA, 1996.

Inscription

upper right in graphite: 6; across bottom in graphite: Advance of the Skirmish Line; lower right in brown ink: 18 x 32 lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: G

NGA object ID 98226. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.