Detail of Long Branch New Jersey by Winslow Homer in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Long Branch, New Jersey
1869
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Dimensions: 40.64 x 55.24 cm (16 x 21 3/4 in.)

Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas

Classification: Paintings

Accession Number: 41.631

As the country began to leave the Civil War behind, Homer increasingly painted images of leisure. Long Branch was one of many, middle-class seaside resorts that had emerged since the Civil War and, as such, was emblematic of the nation's new mobility and prosperity.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/long-branch-new-jersey-32801