Details
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Sailing Boats in the Watering Trough
signed and dated 'Homer 1859' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
6 ½ x 12 in. (16.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1859.
Provenance
The artist.
Charles S. Homer, Jr., Townsend, Massachusetts, brother of the above, by bequest from the above, 1910.
Private collection, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Metcalf, Boston, Massachusetts, 1939.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
"Homer, Artist and Man, Revealed at Show in His Old Studio," The Art Digest, vol. X, no. 19, August 1, 1936, p. 5.
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1846 Through 1866, vol. I, New York, 2005, p. 135, nos. 43-R, 43-V, illustrated.
Exhibited
Prout's Neck, Maine, Prout's Neck Association, Century Loan Exhibition as a Memorial to Winslow Homer, July 18-August 2, 1936, n.p., no. 16, illustrated.
New York, Macbeth Gallery, An Introduction to Homer, December 15, 1936-January 18, 1937, n.p., no. 36, illustrated.
South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Water Colors by Winslow Homer, May 11-June 10, 1940, n.p., no. 16.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College, Winslow Homer: Illustrator, February-March 1951, p. 19, no 10, illustrated.
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