1918.35: Fishing in the Adirondacks

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1918.35

People

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

Title

Fishing in the Adirondacks

Other Titles

Former Title: Adirondacks

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305971

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

35 x 50.5 cm (13 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, u.l., blue ink: [illeg.] 14 x 20
• inscription: verso, graphite: 25824
• inscription: verso, graphite: C. S. Homer Jr. / Present / Dec 6th 1892
• inscription: verso, blue pencil: CH 820
• inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: [encircled:] 51205
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: For "A New World" exhibition, 1986-87.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, gift; to his brother Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1892, bequest; to Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1917, sold [through M. Knoedler and Co., NY, 1918]; to Fogg Art Museum, 1918

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund

Accession Year

1918

Object Number

1918.35

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Howe Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1911), reproduced opposite p. 198
• Arthur Pope, "Water-Colours by Winslow Homer", Fogg Art Museum Notes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, June 1926), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 42-48, repr. p. 46
• M. A. Banks, The Exhibition of Homer Watercolors, Bulletin of The Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI, April 1931), vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 23-26, pg. 25
• Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+
• Ann Hamilton Sayre, "Centennial of Homer Watercolors", Art News (January 25, 1936), pp.5-6, 12, pg. 6
• Charles R. Henschel, Winslow Homer 1836-1910: Loan Exhibition of Water Colours Commemorating the Centenary of His Birth, exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, 1936), cat. 16
• George Henry Lovett Smith, "The Grasp of the Moment," with checklist for Winslow Homer exhibition, Concert Bulletin for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra (Boston, 1937), pg. 361
• Homer Saint-Gaudens, Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), cat. 103, pg. 28, repro.
• American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, exh. cat., Tate Britain (London, 1946), cat. 108
• Second Annual Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, ME, 1954), cat. 10
• James Whitney Fosburgh, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, exh. cat., Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 1959), p. 47, fig. 19
• Lloyd Goodrich and Storm King Art Center, Winslow Homer in New York State, exh. cat., Storm King Art Center (Mountainville, NY, 1963), cat. 48
• Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1966), pp. 163, 260
• 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.103, ill.
• Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), ill. p. 73
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), plate 49, CL-256, p. 296
• Görel Cavalli-Björkman and Nils Göran Hökby, En Ny Värld, Amerikanst Landskapmåleri, 1830-1900/ A New World, American Landscape Painting, 1830-1900, exh. cat., Gothenburg Art Museum and National Museum Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden, 1986), cat. 51, repro.
• David Tatham, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY, 1996), p. 140
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.2, p. 480, no. 1411, repr. p. 480
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
• 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. 167-168, cat. 127, ill.
• Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 60

Exhibition History

• Exposition d'Art Américain John S. Sargent, R. A., Dodge MacKnight, Winslow Homer, Paul Manship, Association Franco-Américaine d'Expositions, Paris, 05/18/1923 - 06/25/1923
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 09/09/1923 - 10/26/1923
• Exhibition of Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/06/1931 - 03/01/1931
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1932 - 06/15/1932
• Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910: Loan Exhibition of Watercolors Commemorating the Centenary of his Birth, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 01/20/1936 - 02/08/1936
• Paintings and Drawings by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 06/30/1986
• [Winslow Homer exhibition], Symphony Hall, Boston, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
• Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 01/28/1937 - 03/07/1937
• American Painting from Inness until Today, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 06/22/1937 - 10/04/1937
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
• American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Tate Britain, London, 06/01/1946 - 07/01/1946
• Water Colors, Drawings, and Wood Engravings by Winslow Homer from the Collections of Eight East Coast Museums, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, 02/03/1952 - 02/24/1952
• Second Annual Exhibition, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1954 - 09/12/1954
• Off to the Holidays, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 04/14/1955 - 06/06/1955
• American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
• Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/23/1958 - 01/04/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/29/1959 - 03/08/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/26/1959 - 05/03/1959
• Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, 08/15/1959 - 09/15/1959
• Winslow Homer in New York State, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, 06/29/1963 - 08/22/1963
• Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/08/1966 - 09/04/1966
• Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• A New World, American Landscape Painting, National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, 09/18/1986 - 11/23/1986; Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, 12/06/1986 - 02/15/1987
• American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
• HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/2008 - 03/02/2008

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