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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.7
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Scene in the Adirondacks
Other Titles
Title: On the Lookout
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1892
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308842

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
35.5 x 51 cm (14 x 20 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, u.r.: HOMER
  • inscription: verso, u.l., black ink: 13 3/4 x 19 3/4
  • inscription: verso, u.l., black ink: T
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: B3347
  • gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, black ink, graphite, printed and handwritten: -3- / No. 51665 / Doll & Richards / Incorporated / 71 Newbury St. / Boston
  • exhibition label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and red and black ink, typewritten: S. E. No. 2954 / Museum of Fine Arts / Boston, Massachusetts / Special Loan Exhibition / of / Winslow Homer / Title: Scene in the Adirondacks / Artist: Winslow Homer / Owner: Mrs. Edward W. Moore / Address: Cotuit, Massachusetts
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: Museum of Fine Arts / Homer / 313.24 / Lent by / Dr. Algernon Coolidge
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, printed: Mrs. Edward W. Moore / P. O. Box 186 / Cotuit, Massachusetts

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Winslow Homer, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1896]; to Edward W. Hooper, Boston, 1896, gift; to his first-cousin-once-removed Amy Peabody Lothrop Coolidge, Boston, 1896, bequest; to her daughter Anne Coolidge Moore, Cotuit, MA, by 1954, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1967

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Moore
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Whitney Fosburgh, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, exh. cat., Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 1959), pg. 26
  • David Tatham, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY, 1996), pg. 141
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 110, no. 1480, repr. p. 110
  • 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. 171, cat. 130, ill. p. 170
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 83

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/08/1911 - 03/08/1911
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/01/1924 - 08/31/1924
  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/26/1959 - 05/03/1959

Verification Level

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