1943.297: Palm Trees, Bahamas

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.297

People

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

Title

Palm Trees, Bahamas

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1898 - 1899

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307873

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

53.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/8 x 15 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor, l.r., cut off: Winslow Homer
• inscription: verso, upper edge, black ink: No. 3
• inscription: verso, upper edge, graphite: [encircled:] 46075
• inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: [Higgn]?
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: The Copley Society of Boston / Exhibition of American Water Colors / Paris, 1923 / Please fill in and stick on the back of picture / Title: Palm Tree / Artist: Winslow Homer / Owner: Mrs. Chas. S. Homer / Address: 375 Park Ave / New York
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and typed: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences / Brooklyn Museum / Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue / Brooklyn, N. Y. / Artist: Winslow Homer / Title: Palm Tree Bahamas / Owner: Charles S. Homer / Address: 512 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. / Date: March 28, 1917
• gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and blue pencil, printed and handwritten: M. Knoedler [torn off] / 556 Fifth Ave., Bet. 45th & 46th Sts. / New York / F 46075
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, handwritten: Belongs to Arthur P. and / Charles L. Homer / Article "24" of will
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, black ink and black crayon, printed, typed and handwritten: [In black crayon] 130 51-3 / [printed and typed] Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA., U.S.A. / Title: Palm Tree, Bahamas / Painter: Winslow Homer / Owner: Mrs. Charles S. Homer
• gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, stamped and handwritten: [black ink, written twice:] 9725 [from William Macbeth Gallery]
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black and red ink, printed: No. 14265 / Picture
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and red and black ink, printed and typed: [partially torn] VOSE / Homer / [?]2370 / [?] Tree / [?] / Boston 1841

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, gift; to his brother Charles S. Homer Jr., bequest; to Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1917, bequest; to Arthur P. and Charles L. Homer, 1937, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., New York, 1940]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1940, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.297

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+, pg. 52
• Lois Homer Graham, "An Intimate Glimpse of Winslow Homer's Art", Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, May 1936), vol. 10, pp. 1-16
• William Macbeth Gallery, An Introduction to Homer, exh. cat. (New York, 1936), no. 56
• Homer Saint-Gaudens, Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), cat. 119
• Winslow Homer: Water Colors and Early Oils from the Estate of Mrs. Charles S. Homer and Other Sources, exh. cat., William Macbeth Gallery (New York, 1938), no. 6
• Winslow Homer's Sub-Tropical America, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1968), cat. 14
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242
• Patti Hannaway, Winslow Homer in the Tropics, Westover Publishing Company (Richmond, VA, 1973), pp. 218-219, plate 39
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-266, p. 297
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 269, no. 1663, repr. p. 269, repr. in color p. 440
• 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. 178, cat. no. 136, reproduced in color, p. 178
• Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 26

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
• Century Loan Exhibition as a Memorial to Winslow Homer, Prout's Neck Association, Prout's Neck, 07/18/1936 - 08/02/1936
• Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 01/28/1937 - 03/07/1937
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944

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