Picking Flowers, Houghton Farm

Details

WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Picking Flowers, Houghton Farm
signed and dated 'Winslow Homer N.A./March 10th 1879' (lower right)
pen on paper
sight, 8 x 7 ½ in. (20.3 x 19.1 cm.);
sheet, 12 x 9 ½ in. (30.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1879.

Provenance

Robert Walter Weir, West Point, New York, circa 1880.
Mrs. Gregory Smith, Old Lyme, Connecticut, by descent from the above.
Caroline Bick, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, daughter of the above, by descent from the above.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2014.

Literature

L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1890 Through 1910, vol. V, New York, 2014, p. 475, no. 758.5+, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, "This drawing is a leaf in an album that belonged to the artist and long time teacher at the United States Military Academy, Robert Weir. Neither the person...who initiated and developed the album, nor its purpose, is known...The considerable amount of artists who contributed are similarly wide ranging; among them were Thomas Nast, Samuel Colman, John Henry Dolph, William Holbrook Beard, Jervis McEntee, James Carroll Beckwith, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Robert Weir, himself." (Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1890 Through 1910, vol. V, New York, 2014, p. 475)

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