Harvard Art Museums > 1956.210: Key West Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Key West (Winslow Homer) , 1956.210,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 10, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/308424. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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