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Snap the Whip
Snap the Whip is an 1872 oil painting by Winslow Homer. It depicts a group of children playing a game in a field in front of an old red schoolhouse. With more of America's population moving to cities, this portrait depicts the simplicity of rural agrarian life that Americans began to leave behind in the post-Civil war era.
Homer spent several summers in New York's Hudson Valley, and is said to have been inspired to paint this scene by local boys playing at the Hurley schoolhouse
"Snap the Whip", a famed tribute to the era of the one-room schoolhouse. Winslow; however, painted two versions of Snap the Whip, with the other version residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The two paintings differ, with the Butler's version of "Snap the Whip" having mountains in the background, while the Metropolitan's does not. In 2007, the museum acquired the Norman Rockwell painting "Lincoln the Railsplitter" for $1.6 million. The previous owner of the 84.5 by 44.5