Art, literature & history
A Sick Chicken
1874
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 24.7 x 19.7 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.59.21
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. A Sick Chicken. Winslow Homer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Sick Chicken — Winslow Homer. 1874.
Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 24.7 x 19.7 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.59.21. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.