{"data": {"id": 124040, "accession_number": "1944.524", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "The Brierwood Pipe, 1864. Winslow Homer (American, 1836\u20131910). Oil on canvas; framed: 68.9 x 64.1 x 9.2 cm (27 1/8 x 25 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.); unframed: 42.8 x 37.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); former: 69 x 64 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 31, 1947).", "opening_date": "1947-02-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311898, "title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition", "description": "<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).", "opening_date": "1951-06-20T04:00:00"}, {"id": 518720, "title": "The Civil War: The Artists' Record", "description": "<i>The Civil War: The Artists' Record</i>. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 18-December 31, 1961); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 1-March 4, 1962).", "opening_date": "1961-11-18T05:00:00"}, {"id": 304725, "title": "Winslow Homer: Portrait of America", "description": "<i>Winslow Homer: Portrait of America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966).", "opening_date": "1965-11-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 361410, "title": "Winslow Homer", "description": "<i>Winslow Homer</i>. 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Boylston Adams (Helen Foster), Brookline, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "Probably 1940-1944", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Zabdiel Boylston Adams [1875-1940], Brookline, MA, to his wife, Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams1", "citations": [], "footnotes": ["<div><!--block-->1The exact mode of transfer and date of this painting from Mr. to Mrs. Boylston Adams are unknown, but she likely received it upon his death in 1940.</div><div><!--block--><br><br></div>"], "date": "1915 - probably 1940", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "Annie Adams Fields (Mrs. James T. Fields) [1834-1915], Boston, MA, by bequest to her nephew, Zabdiel Boylston Adams", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1881-1915", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "James Thomas Fields [1817-1881], Boston, MA", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "-1881", "sortorder": 5}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "During the Civil War, Homer worked as an artist-reporter for the New York newspaper <em>Harper's Weekly</em>.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": "INTERACTIVE <br><strong>Discover: What Does Art Sound Like?</strong> <br>Touch a 3D re-creation of this painting to hear about the sights, sounds, and stories of this quiet Civil War scene.", "description": "Created during the United States Civil War, Winslow Homer\u2019s painting depicts two volunteers for the Union Army who sport their regiment\u2019s highly colorful uniforms, a design discovered to be impractical due to its ability to be spotted by sharpshooters. Passing idle time in their encampment, one soldier holds a lit pipe and watches his companion whittle a block of wood. The painting shares its title with a contemporary poem, in which a soldier smokes a brierwood pipe and daydreams of the time when the conflict will end so he can return home. The museum acquired this painting during World War II, and it seems likely that the painting\u2019s subject was viewed as especially significant for its wartime audience.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7720110"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1944.524-the-brierwood-pipe"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Marr, Timothy. \"The American Zouave.\" <em>Military Images </em>34, no. 4. 22-29", "page_number": "Reproduced: 22-23, 27.", "url": null}, {"citation": "Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. <em>Record of Works by Winslow Homer</em>. 2005.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Holzer, Harold and Mark E. Neely, Jr., eds. <em>Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art.</em> (New York: Orion, 1993).", "page_number": "Mentioned pp. 281-83; reproduced p. 283.", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Downes, William Howe. <em>The Life and Works of Winslow Homer</em>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1911.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 51", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cox, Kenyon. <em>Winslow Home</em>r. New York: Privately printed, 1914.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 18", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Burchfield, Louise H. \u201cPaintings by Winslow Homer.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 33, no. 9 (November 1946): 165\u201371.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 166; Reproduced: P. 168", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141315"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 543", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n101"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 187", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n211"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 187", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n211"}, {"citation": "Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. <em>An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 10-13", "url": ""}, {"citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 28, no. 88", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152465"}, {"citation": "Williams, Hermann Warner. <em>Mirror to the American Past; A Survey of American Genre Painting: 1750-1900.</em> Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1973.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 182-183, no. 176", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Grossman, Julian. <em>Echo of a Distant Drum: Winslow Homer and the Civil War.</em> New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 112-113", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 231", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n251"}, {"citation": "Hendricks, Gordon. <em>The Life and Work of Winslow Homer.</em> New York: Harry N. Abrams,1979.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 318, no. CL-555", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Ledes, Allison Eckardt. \"Current and Coming: Winslow Homer and the Civil War.\" <em>The Magazine Antique</em>s 134 (August 1988): 216-230.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 216", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cikovsky, Nicolai. \" Winslow Homer's Unfinished Business.\" In <em>American Art Around 1900: Lectures in Memory of Daniel Fraad, </em>Doreen Bolger, and Nicolai Cikovsky, eds., 93-117. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 98, fig. 12; Reproduced: P. 100, fig.12", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cikovsky, Nicolai. <em>Winslow Homer</em>. New York: Abrams,1990.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Jennings, Kate F. <em>Winslow Home</em>r. New York, N.Y.: Crescent Books, 1990.", "page_number": "Mentioned, p. 8-9, 19; reproduced: p. 20.", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 130", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cikovsky, Nicolai. <em>Winslow Homer</em>. [New York, N.Y.]: [Rizzoli], 1992.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Pl. 1", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Sears, Stephen W. <em>The Civil War: A Treasury of Art and Literat</em>ure. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1992.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 145, pl. 40", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cikovsky, Nicolai. \"Winslow Homer.\" <em>Portraits: The Lives and Works of Eminent Artists </em>1, no.6.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Cover", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 106", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cikovsky, Nicolai. \"The School of War.\" In <em>Winslow Home</em>r, Nicolai Cikovsky and Franklin Kelly, 17-60. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press,1995.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 42-43, no. 3", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Conrads, Margaret C. <em>Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2001.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 14, fig. 4", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Mitchell, Mark D. <em>Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light</em>. New York, N.Y.: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2002.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22, fig. 7", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Jennings, Kate F. <em>Winslow Homer.</em> North Dighton, Mass: JG Press/World Publications Group, 2004.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 19-20", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Adams, Henry. <em>What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Ar</em>t. 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