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A watercolor depicts two fishermen inside a small boat, floating on a body of water in a subtropical landscape.

A watercolor depicts two figures inside a small white boat, floating on a body of water that is surrounded by jungle. One figure in dark clothing is in a passive position, while the second figure, wearing a tan raincoat, leans back as he prepares to cast his fishing rod into the dark waters. Both figures are wearing hats. In the background, a small patch of overcast sky is framed on either side by dense foliage, palm trees, and vines in shades of green.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.50
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Homosassa Jungle
Other Titles
Former Title: Homosassa Jungle in Florida
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1904
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306835

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
35.2 × 55.2 cm (13 7/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
mat: 55.2 × 75.9 cm (21 3/4 × 29 7/8 in.)
frame: 64.6 × 84.9 × 1.9 cm (25 7/16 × 33 7/16 × 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: watercolor, l.l.: HOMER 1904
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Homosassa Jungle in Florida
  • inscription: verso, center left, graphite, in artist's hand: not for sale
  • inscription: verso, top left, graphite, in artist's hand: Winslow Homer / 1904
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper: no. 221, Homer Watercolors exhibition
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: no. 2943.2, Homer exhibition, 1959
  • exhibition label: 1976-1977, backing board, paper: no. 71.1.126, for American Master Drawings and Watercolors

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Winslow Homer, probably gift; to his brother Charles S. Homer, Jr., circa 1904, bequest; to Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1917, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Homer, in memory of the late Charles S. Homer and his brother, Winslow Homer
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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), pg. 287
  • Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+, pg. 54
  • William Germain Dooley, "Homer Scene Acquired by Fogg Museum", Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA, February 1, 1936), p. 6, p. 6, reproduced in b/w
  • "New Winslow Homer for Fogg Art Museum", Boston Post (Boston, MA, February 2, 1936)
  • "Watercolors by Two Americans for the Fogg", Art News (February 8, 1936), p. 13, p. 13
  • Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 114
  • 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. 23
  • Homer Saint-Gaudens, Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), cat. 108
  • Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1942), pg. 36, repro.
  • Second Annual Exhibition Catalogue, exh. cat., Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, ME, 1954), cat. 7
  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1959), cat. 146
  • Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Winslow Homer, American Artist: His World and His Work, C. N. Potter (New York, NY, 1961), p. 247, reproduced p. 27
  • Artists of the Florida Tropics, exh. cat., University Gallery, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, 1965), reproduced, no. 43
  • Winslow Homer's Sub-Tropical America, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1968), reproduced p. 28
  • Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, pp. 877, 880, fig. 10
  • 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. 107, ill.
  • Patti Hannaway, Winslow Homer in the Tropics, Westover Publishing Company (Richmond, VA, 1973), pp. 270-271, plate 65
  • James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), p. 76, cat. 36, ill.
  • Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), pp. 61, 107, pl. 11
  • Winslow Homer's Florida, 1880-1909, exh. cat., Cummer Gallery of Art (Jacksonville, FL, 1977), cat. 42, repro.
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-258, p. 297
  • Abigail Booth Gerdts, Winslow Homer in Monochrome, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, NY, 1986), p. 86
  • Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 236, 256; reproduced in color fig. 221
  • David C. Miller, Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th-century American Culture, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1989), p. 229, fig. 11.2
  • Kate F. Jennings, Winslow Homer, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1990), p. 80
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer Watercolors, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1991), plate 105, color
  • Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1993), pg. 127
  • Miles Unger, The Watercolors of Winslow Homer, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, 2001), pp. 201, 219, repro. 210-11
  • Patricia Junker and Sarah Burns, Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler, exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Fort Worth, TX and San Francisco, CA, 2002), cat. no. 51, repr. (color), pp. 175, 230
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 352, no. 1746, repr. p. 352
  • 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. 180, cat. 138, ill. p. 181
  • Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm, Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press (Chicago, 2008)
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 23
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Natalia Vieyra, "Armchair Travel—Imagining Faraway Places", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], June 17, 2020), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/armchair-travel-imagining-faraway-places, accessed June 29, 2020
  • William R. Cross, Winslow Homer: American Passage, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 416, repr. as fig. 252
  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/06/1911 - 03/19/1911
  • Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Thomas Eakins, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 05/01/1930 - 05/31/1930
  • 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
  • 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
  • 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/18/1939 - 05/14/1939
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
  • A History of American Watercolor Painting, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 12/02/1945 - 12/27/1945; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 01/06/1946 - 01/27/1946; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 02/06/1946 - 02/26/1946; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 03/10/1946 - 04/14/1946; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 05/08/1946 - 06/02/1946; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 06/16/1946 - 07/14/1946; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now Nelson-Atkins), Kansas City, 07/25/1946 - 08/18/1946; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 09/01/1946 - 09/25/1946; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 10/06/1946 - 10/27/1946; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, 11/08/1946 - 11/28/1946
  • 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
  • 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
  • Artists of the Florida Tropics, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, 03/01/1965 - 03/31/1965; Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 04/01/1965 - 04/30/1965; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 05/01/1965 - 05/31/1965
  • Winslow Homer's Sub-Tropical America, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 08/06/1968 - 09/15/1968
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
  • Views of Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 03/07/1975 - 04/13/1975; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 05/06/1975 - 06/02/1975
  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
  • Winslow Homer Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/02/1986 - 05/11/1986; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 06/06/1986 - 07/27/1986; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 09/11/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • Casting a Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 12/07/2002 - 02/09/2003; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 04/11/2003 - 06/22/2003
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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