Art, literature & history
Four Boys on a Beach
1873
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite with watercolor and gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14.1 × 34 cm (5 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1979.19.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. Four Boys on a Beach. Winslow Homer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Four Boys on a Beach — Winslow Homer. 1873.
Medium: graphite with watercolor and gouache on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 14.1 × 34 cm (5 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1979.19.1. John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund.
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.