TitlePigs
Artist
Horatio Walker
(1858 - 1938)
Date1888
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 13 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.
Framed: 22 × 28 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "Horatio Walker/L'Ile aux Groes/1888"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 28, 1892
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1368-P
Label TextSwine were a subject occasionally treated by Walker in his rural genre scenes; one such painting appeared in the 1886 Academy Annual. Typically, Pigs is dark and sketchy, with the featureless swineherd silhouetted against the somber, dim sky. In the foreground, the animals are described in loose, heavy strokes of black, white, and brown.
