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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.301
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Waves on A Rocky Coast
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1883
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307922

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite and black chalk on white wove paper
Dimensions
35.4 x 50.5 cm (13 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black watercolor, l.r.: HOMER 83 [and above that, barely decipherable] Winslow Homer
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Winslow Homer / Painted 1883
  • inscription: u.r., graphite: 32

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Green, Rochester, NY, before 1916, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1919]; to William J. Johnson, Uniontown, PA, 1919, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1934] [via Martin Birnbaum, 1934] [1]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, NY, 1934, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

[1] Birnbaum wrote to Winthrop on November 1, 1934, urging him to buy the “superb Homer marine” he had just seen at Macbeth.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.301
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-277, p. 298
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.2, p. 264, no. 1211, repr. p. 264, repr. in color p. 530
  • 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. 162-163, cat. no. 38, reproduced in color, p. 163
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), p. 6, repr. pp.10-11 (details), 12
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 64-67, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 64, fig. 2 on p. 65, fig. 3 on p. 66 [detail]
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 1-2, Page 64; Figure 3, Page 66

Exhibition History

  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944

Verification Level

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