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Charles T. Webber (1825–1911)
Children Out of Doors, 1882
oil on canvas
24 x 35 in.

Children Out of Doors depicts a young milkmaid tending to a cow and several of her “children” in a woodland setting. Shown at the 1882 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition and reproduced in the catalogue, Webber chose to print the following verse with the painting: “These children I call mine; what parent yours / You children out of doors.”

Taken from a poem of the same title by John James Piatt, a Cincinnati (North Bend) poet and journalist, The Children Out of Doors was read at the opening of the Children’s Home Fair in Cincinnati in April 1879. A contemporary of Walt Whitman, Piatt was well-known as a writer of the American West, publishing numerous commercially successful books of poetry and prose.