1943.296: Watching the Tempest

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.296

People

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

Title

Watching the Tempest

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1881

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Newcastle

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307969

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

35.6 x 50.4 cm (14 x 19 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown watercolor, l.l.: Winslow Homer 1881
• inscription: verso,u.l., graphite: Storm / Near Tynemouth
• gallery label: removed from old mount? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: no. 6029
• inscription: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, black ink, handwritten: Burton Mansfield Collection, April 7 1933

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, sold; to Thomas B. Clarke, New York, probably by 1888, sold [through American Art Association, New York, Clarke estate sale, 1899]; to Burton Mansfield, New Haven, CT, 1899, sold [through American Art Galleries/Anderson Galleries, New York, Mansfield estate sale, 1933]; to [Scott and Fowles, New York, 1933], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, February 1934, 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

1943.296

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Inter-State Industrial Exhibition of Chicago, Catalogue of the Paintings Exhibited by the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, exh. cat., Rand McNally (Chicago, 1889), cat. 245
• William Howe Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1911), pp. 100, 101, 103, 259; reproduced opposite p. 88
• John Charles van Dyke, American Painting and Its Tradition (New York, NY, 1919), p. 100
• Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+, pg. 50
• Choice Oil Paintings... from the Collection of the Late Burton Mansfield, auct. cat., American Art Association/Anderson Galleries Inc. (New York, NY, April 7, 1933), no. 67, repr.; mentioned in foreword
• James Thomas Flexner, The World of Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Time-Life Books (New York, NY, 1966), p. 104, reproduced
• Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1966), fig. 2, p. 22
• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242, cat. 114, ill. p. 175
• John Wilmerding, Winslow Homer, Praeger Publishers (New York, NY, 1972), p. 157, plate 4-8
• Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer, McGraw-Hill (New York, 1975), fig. 7
• Helen Barbara Weinberg, "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872 to 1899, American Art Journal (May 1976), vol. VIII, no. 1, p. 52-83, p. 76
• William H. Gerdts, "Winslow Homer in Cullercoats", Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, Spring 1977), pp. 18-35, pp. 18-19, fig. 1
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), fig. 246, CL-276, p. 298
• Carol Troyen, The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1980), p. 160
• Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 96, 101, 216, 248; reproduced in color fig. 86
• Sabine Mertens, Seesturm und Schiffbruch: Eine motivgeschichtliche Studie, Kabel Verlag (Hamburg, Germany, 1987), p. 207, ill; p. 122
• Tony Knipe, ed., Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures, exh. cat., Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK, 1988), pp. 65, 71, no 29, pg. 108, repr. 48
• Kate F. Jennings, Winslow Homer, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1990), pp. 54 - 55
• Constance Demuth Berg, "Letter from Cullercoats: Retracing Homer's English Odyssey", American Art (Summer 1992), pp. 92-99, pp. 92 - 99; reproduced in b/w p. 98
• 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.III
• Peter Neill, On a Painted Ocean: Art of the Seven Seas, New York University Press (New York, NY, 1995), pg. 156, repro.
• Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, Winslow Homer, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C.; New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 179; reproduced in color fig. 143, p. 180
• Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats, Station Press (Port Seton, UK, 1995), pp 68, 98, repro.
• Miles Unger, The Watercolors of Winslow Homer, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, 2001), pp. 102, 222, repro. 98-99
• Robert J. Demarest, Traveling with Winslow Homer, America's Premier Artist/Angler, Apple Trees Productions (New York, 2002), fig. 52 (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 448-49, cat. 201, ill.
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 462-63, cat. 201, ill.
• Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in England, Hornby Editions (Ocean Park, ME, 2004), pg. 100, repro.
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.1, p. 83, no. 1084, repr. p. 83
• Sophie Lévy, ed., Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain (Giverny, 2006), p. 17, fig. 5
• 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. 155, cat. no. 118, reproduced in color, p. 157
• Marco Goldin, Van Gogh and Gauguin's Journey: Variations on a Theme, exh. cat., Linea d'Ombra (Treviso, Italy, 2011), ill. p. 153
• Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 19
• Georgina Rayner, "Light Effects", Index Magazine ([e-journal], July 31, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/light-effects, accessed August 15, 2018
• Ethan Lasser, "The Artist as Journalist", The Magazine Antiques (November/December 2019), pp. 86-93, pp. 92-93, repr. as fig. 10
• Colleen Walsh, "The Artist as Witness", The Harvard Gazette (September 13, 2019), e-journal, repr., https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/winslow-homers-work-as-civil-war-art-correspondent-focus-of-eyewitness-exhibit-at-harvard/, accessed September 17, 2019
• William R. Cross, Winslow Homer: American Passage, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 271, repr. as fig. 156

Exhibition History

• Third Annual Loan Exhibition... from Members' Collections, New York Athletic Club, New York, 02/02/1889 - 02/02/1889
• Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Union League Club, New York, 04/11/1889 - 04/13/1889
• Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, Inter-State Industrial Exhibition of Chicago, Chicago, 09/04/1889 - 10/19/1889
• Thomas B. Clarke Collection of American Pictures, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 10/15/1891 - 11/28/1891
• The Paintings of Two Americans, Union League Club, New York, 03/10/1898 - 03/12/1898
• Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/06/1911 - 03/19/1911
• Exhibition of Paintings, Pottery and Glass loaned by loaned by the Honorable Burton Mansfield of New Haven, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 04/13/1920 - 10/31/1920
• Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
• Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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