1939.235: Pike, Lake St. John (Ouananiche Fishing)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1939.235

People

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

Title

Pike, Lake St. John (Ouananiche Fishing)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1897

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307849

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

35.6 x 53.5 cm (14 x 21 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: W. H. '97
• inscription: verso, u.l., black ink: Pike-- Lake St. John / No. 5
• inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite: 14 x 21
• inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: [encircled:] 10

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, sold [through J. W. Young Galleries, Chicago, 1907]. Horace D. Chapin, Boston, before 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

1939.235

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1942), pg. 78, repro.
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-267, p. 297
• Lee Eisenberg and DeCourcy Taylor, The Ultimate Fishing Book, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1981), reproduced, p. 127
• 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. 53, repro.
• Gene W. Teitelbaum, "Winslow Homer in Canada", Winslow Homer: An Annual (1987), p. 3-32, reproduced, no. 35
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 254-255, no. 1647, repr. p. 255
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
• 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. 175-76, cat. no. 134, reproduced in color, p. 176

Exhibition History

• Memorial Exhibition of Winslow Homer, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 11/15/1911 - 12/12/1911
• 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
• Unidentified Exhibition, University of Redlands, 1941, University of Redlands, Redlands, 01/25/1941 - 02/27/1941
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
• 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
• American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
• 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/12/2019 - 11/13/2019
• 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2017 - 07/11/2017

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights
• Google Art Project

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