Framed Sharpshooter by Winslow Homer

Product Overview:

• Proudly handmade in the USA
• Wood frame with mat, glass front, paper duster backing with wire hanger
• Museum quality Giclee digital print using archival paper and inks
• Standard size frame measures approx. 24" x 19"
• Poster size frame measures approx. 36" x 29"

Product Details:

Sharpshooter by Winslow Homer is a striking Civil War-era painting that captures the deadly precision—and unsettling detachment—of modern warfare. Rather than depicting a sweeping battlefield, Homer zooms in on a single Union soldier perched in a tree, calmly taking aim with a rifle. The pose is almost casual, yet chilling in its implication: war has become a matter of calculated, impersonal lethality. Homer reportedly based the image on firsthand observation, and later wrote that sharpshooting was “as near murder as anything I ever could think of in connection with the army.” The cool palette, tight composition, and focus on the soldier’s intent expression turn the scene into a meditation on morality amidst necessity. Rather than glorifying heroism, Homer forces viewers to confront the psychological cost of killing at a distance—a theme remarkably modern for an 1863 painting.