1939.240: Gloucester Harbor and Dory

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1939.240

People

Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)

Title

Gloucester Harbor and Dory

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1880

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299798

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

34.7 x 49.8 cm (13 11/16 x 19 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black watercolor, l.r.: WINSLOW HOMER
• inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: No. 4
• inscription: verso, left edge, graphite: #42
• inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: 251-[E?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1880]; to Mrs. Charles Fairchild, Boston, 1880, gift; to Charles Nelson Fairchild, New York, by 1897, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1897]; to Edward W. Hooper, Boston, 1899. Alexander Henry Higginson, before 1902, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1920]; to Horace D. Chapin, Boston, 1920, gift; to his sister, Mrs. Robert B. Osgood, Boston, 1937, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.240

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Copley Society, Copley Society Catalogue of Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1921), cat. no. 46
• Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer, MacMillan (New York, NY, 1944), section 19, repro.
• Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1944), no. 33
• Lloyd Goodrich, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1945), pg. 206, no. 29, repro.
• Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1966), fig. 5
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 6
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 100, ill.
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-257, p. 297
• Peter L. Koenig, New Horizons: Nineteenth-Century American Marine Painting, exh. cat., Art Complex Museum (Duxbury, MA, 1988), p. 8, ill. p. 16
• Guy Hubbard, "The Geography of Art", Arts and Activities (March 1989), vol. 105, no. 2, p. 37
• D. Scott Atkinson, Winslow Homer in Gloucester, exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art (Chicago, IL, 1990), no. 30, color plate 37, p. 56
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
• Margaret C. Conrads, Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s, exh. cat., Princeton University Press/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Princeton/Kansas City, 2001), fig. 130 (color), p. 183, p. 209 (checklist)
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 3, p. 393, no. 1008, repr. p. 393, repr. in color p. 477
• Sophie Lévy, ed., Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain (Giverny, 2006), no. 11; p. 71, ill.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 154, cat. no. 117, reproduced in color
• Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 13

Exhibition History

• Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, Copley Society of Boston, 03/05/1921 - 03/22/1921
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1932 - 06/15/1932
• Paintings and Drawings by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 06/30/1986
• Unidentified Exhibition, Mead Art Gallery, 1940, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 04/25/1940 - 05/09/1940
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 05/11/1940 - 06/10/1940
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
• Winslow Homer, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 11/16/1944 - 12/17/1944
• American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 02/27/1945 - 03/23/1945; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1945 - 05/01/1945; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 05/15/1945 - 06/12/1945
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• American Marine Painting, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, 03/23/1988 - 05/15/1988
• Winslow Homer in Gloucester, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 10/20/1990 - 12/30/1990
• Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 02/18/2001 - 05/06/2001; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 06/10/2001 - 09/09/2001
• Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 02/22/2006 - 05/23/2006; Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, 06/18/2006 - 09/24/2006
• Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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