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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.471
People
Henrietta Benson Homer, American (Buckstown [Bucksport], Maine 1809 - 1884 Brooklyn, New York)
Title
Meadow-Beauty
Other Titles
Former Title: Wildflowers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1860s-1870s
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/336646

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
38 x 27.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, right edge, blue ballpoint ink (not in artist's hand): This watercolor painted by Winslow Homer's mother, Henrietta Benson Homer / Doris F. Homer
  • inscription: l.r.: Meadow Beauty

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henrietta Benson Homer, by descent; to Doris F. Homer (Mrs. Charles Lowell Homer).[Sally Turner Gallery, 1970], sold; to Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Boston, MA, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2010

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. in honor of Miriam Stewart
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.471
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), p. 16, 244, ill. p. 18, fig. 3
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 268, cat. 215, ill.
  • William R. Cross, Winslow Homer: American Passage, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, 2022), p. 23, repr. as fig. 11
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 13-14, repr. as fig. 2 on p. 13

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