Winslow Homer: 'Blackboard', 1877
The marks on the blackboard puzzled scholars for
many years. They now have been identified as belonging to
a method of drawing instruction popular in American schools
in the 1870s. In their earliest lessons, young children were taught
to draw by forming simple combinations of lines, as seen on the
blackboard here. Rather than being a polite accomplishment,
drawing was viewed as having a practical application, playing a
valuable role in industrial design. Homer playfully signed the
blackboard in its lower-right corner as though with chalk
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The marks on the blackboard puzzled scholars for
many years. They now have been identified as belonging to
a method of drawing instruction popular in American schools
in the 1870s. In their earliest lessons, young children were taught
to draw by forming simple combinations of lines, as seen on the
blackboard here. Rather than being a polite accomplishment,
drawing was viewed as having a practical application, playing a
valuable role in industrial design. Homer playfully signed the
blackboard in its lower-right corner as though with chalk
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