  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  A woman dressed in red turns away from the viewer and blows a metal horn toward an unseen field. The deep overhang of a porch covered with climbing roses protects her from the summer sun. The buckets, barrels, and wooden boxes lining the porch suggest this is a working farmhouse. She is calling laborers home for dinner, as the noontime meal was known in the 1870s.

Winslow Homer rendered this subject five times between 1870 and 1873 in paintings, sketches, and a print for the widely read magazine Harper&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Weekly. In the earlier 1870 painting The Dinner Horn (Blowing the Horn at Seaside) (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), the background opens to a green field dotted with farm workers she calls to the meal. In this final version, painted in 1873, he isolated the woman in an enclosed space with only the call of the horn linking her to the surrounding world.
  
  
  Title
  The Dinner Horn
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1873
  
  Artist
  Winslow Homer
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1836-1910
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
  ----------
  
  
  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 11 7/8 &Atilde;&#151; 14 1/4 inches (30.2 &Atilde;&#151; 36.2 cm)
  Framed: 20 7/8 &Atilde;&#151; 23 &Atilde;&#151; 3 1/2 inches (53 &Atilde;&#151; 58.4 &Atilde;&#151; 8.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  47.81
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
  
  
  
