Boy and Girl at a Well (1879 ... had bought them in Chicago in a certain year-a year that Winslow Homer was exhibiting works at a Chicago gallery, trying to raise money for a trip to Europe.

The frugal Winslow Homer was at his most parsimonious with ... For to Be a Farmer's Boy and North Woods Club, Adirondacks. In each, Homer touched up the skies with a pink madder wash from red ...

Homer scholar Philip Beam thinks the mystery woman was no woman at all, but rather a boy modeling as a woman ... to share with a wife," Beam wrote in Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck (1966).