1956.210: Key West

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.210

People

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

Title

Key West

Other Titles

Former Title: Boats, Key West

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1903

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/308424

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

35.4 × 55.4 cm (13 15/16 × 21 13/16 in.)
mat: 65.4 × 86.7 cm (25 3/4 × 34 1/8 in.)
frame: 70.8 × 91.9 × 2.2 cm (27 7/8 × 36 3/16 × 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor, l.l.: WH; l.r.: Key West
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and inscribed in blue ink: [torn] of the Four Arts / [torn] Beach, Florida / [torn] 75-14-1-1 [Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, 1975]
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: National Gallery of Art / Washington, D. C. / Exhibition: Winslow Homer Watercolors / Date: 2 March - 11 May 1986. Cat. # 214 / Artist: Winslow Homer / Title: Key West / Lender: Harvard University Art Museums
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: S.E. No. 2943.1 / Museum of Fine Arts / Boston, Massachusetts / Special Loan Exhibition of / Winslow Homer / Title: Key West / Artist: Homer / Owner: The Fogg Art Museum / Address: Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. [exhibition dates: March to May 1959]
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: The Institute of Contemporary Art / 138 Newbury Street, Boston 16, Massachusetts / Artist: Winslow Homer / Title: Key West / ICA number: 55-1-38 / Medium and Size: / [torn off] Edward W. Forbes / (Fogg Museum)
• exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Winslow Homer (1836-1910) / 24. Key West / Watercolor. 13 1/4 x 20 3/4 (sight) / Lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge / Gift of Edward W. Forbes
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and inscribed in black marker: W. S. Budworth & Son / Packers & Shippers of Works of Art / 424 West 52nd St., New York, N. Y. / I J

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Winslow Homer, sold [through M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1904]; to Daniel G. Reid, New York, 1904, sold [through M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1922]; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA, 1922 [1], gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes

Accession Year

1956

Object Number

1956.210

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Pope, "Water-Colours by Winslow Homer", Fogg Art Museum Notes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, June 1926), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 42-48, repr. p. 42
• Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Thomas Eakins, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1930), no. 41
• Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+
• Women's Civic Club, Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, exh. cat., Crandall Free Library (Glens Falls, NY, 1933), cat. 10
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 114
• George Henry Lovett Smith, "The Grasp of the Moment," with checklist for Winslow Homer exhibition, Concert Bulletin for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra (Boston, 1937), pg. 361
• "American Watercolors Shown in Vienna", Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Quarterly Bulletin, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (Syracuse, NY, January-February-March 1950), vol. 11, no. 2, p. 9, p. 9
• Edward Waldo Forbes, History of the Fogg Art Museum, Unpublished (1956), p. 365, vol. II
• Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1959), no. 145
• Winslow Homer's Sub-Tropical America, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1968), reproduced p. 33
• Patti Hannaway, Winslow Homer in the Tropics, Westover Publishing Company (Richmond, VA, 1973), pp. 262-263, pl. 61
• Gorham Bert Munson and John Gordon, Views of Florida by American Masters, exh. cat., Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach Florida and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (Palm Beach, FL, 1975), cat. 24
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 14, 17, 28, 39, 48, 57, 69, 98, cat. 24, fig. 8 (detail)
• Winslow Homer's Florida, 1880-1909, exh. cat., Cummer Gallery of Art (Jacksonville, FL, 1977), cat. 29, repro.
• Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-261, p. 259, 297, plate 65
• Christopher Finch, American Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1986), reproduced in color, p. 17, fig. 14
• Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 234, 255; reproduced in color fig. 214
• Kate F. Jennings, Winslow Homer, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1990), pp. 84-85
• Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer Watercolors, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1991), color plate 54
• Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 341, no. 1735, repr. p. 341
• Sophie Lévy, ed., Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain (Giverny, 2006), checklist no. 57, repr. pp. 138-139
• 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. 179-180, cat. no. 137, reproduced in color, p. 179
• Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 29

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
• Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Thomas Eakins, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 05/01/1930 - 05/31/1930
• American Painting, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 07/01/1930 - 08/31/1930
• Exhibition of Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/06/1931 - 03/01/1931
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1932 - 06/15/1932
• Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933
• Sports in Art, New York Junior League, New York, 04/11/1934 - 04/25/1934
• Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935
• Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935
• Paintings and Drawings by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 06/30/1986
• [Winslow Homer exhibition], Symphony Hall, Boston, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
• 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/18/1939 - 05/14/1939
• Unidentified Exhibition, Mead Art Gallery, 1940, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 04/25/1940 - 05/09/1940
• Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 05/11/1940 - 06/10/1940
• 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
• Exhibit of American Watercolors, Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 07/23/1949 - 01/30/1950
• American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
• Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/23/1958 - 01/04/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 01/29/1959 - 03/08/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/26/1959 - 05/03/1959
• Unidentified Exhibition, Wesleyan University, 1959, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 07/01/1959 - 08/31/1959
• Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1966, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 10/15/1966 - 12/15/1966
• Winslow Homer's Sub-Tropical America, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 08/06/1968 - 09/15/1968
• Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
• Views of Florida, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 03/07/1975 - 04/13/1975; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, 05/06/1975 - 06/02/1975
• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
• Winslow Homer Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/02/1986 - 05/11/1986; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 06/06/1986 - 07/27/1986; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 09/11/1986 - 11/02/1986
• Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 02/22/2006 - 05/23/2006; Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, 06/18/2006 - 09/24/2006
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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