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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.231
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
The Lookout
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307768

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper
Dimensions
37.2 x 55.6 cm (14 5/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
framed: 61.6 × 76.5 × 2.9 cm (24 1/4 × 30 1/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: HOMER 1882
  • inscription: verso, u.r., black ink: No. 26
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 25052
  • label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, typed and printed: 299.35, [owner:] Horace D. Chapin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Winslow Homer, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1883]; to Henry C. Valentine, New York, 1883, gift; to his sister Ellen Valentine, bequest; to Josephine Danforth, 1921, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1922]; to Horace D. Chapin, Boston, 1923, 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
1939.231
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1942), pg. 49, repro.
  • Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1966), pp. 54, 261
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-263, p. 297
  • 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), no. 47, reproduced
  • Tony Knipe, ed., Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures, exh. cat., Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK, 1988), pg. 108
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats, Station Press (Port Seton, UK, 1995), pp. 69, 105, repro.
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in England, Hornby Editions (Ocean Park, ME, 2004), pg. 82, repro.
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.1, p. 134, no. 1139, repr. p. 133
  • 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. 159, cat. no. 121, reproduced in color
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 15
  • Elizabeth Athens, Brandon Ruud, and Martha Tedeschi, Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Worcester, MA and Milwaukee, WI, 2017), cat. no. 37, pp. 77, 78, 164, repr. p. 119

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Doll and Richards, 1883, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 12/01/1883 - 12/15/1883
  • Paintings and Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 01/25/1923 - 02/06/1923
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/01/1924 - 08/31/1924
  • 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
  • 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
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/02/2009 - 10/12/2009
  • Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 11/11/2017 - 02/04/2018
  • Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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