Winslow Homer · 1877
Dressing for the Carnival
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Two women sew bright yellow, red and blue patches onto a man's costume for a carnival in a sunlit Virginia yard, while barefoot children, one holding a small American flag, watch beside a wooden fence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Up to 18 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Dressing for the Carnival
Dressing for the Carnival is an 1877 oil painting by Winslow Homer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It shows a group of African Americans preparing for the festival known in the South as Jonkonnu, in which a Harlequin-like figure is costumed in bright, ragged clothes. Unlike the condescending carnival images common in the Reconstruction era, Homer's scene is nuanced and grave, and one of the children holds the Stars and Stripes.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
All Winslow Homer prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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