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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.232
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Looking Out to Sea
Other Titles
Former Title: Looking out to Sea (Tynemouth)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1881
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307790

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
34.7 x 49.2 cm (13 11/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
framed: 54.6 × 69.9 × 1.9 cm (21 1/2 × 27 1/2 × 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.l.: Winslow Homer
  • exhibition label: 1986-1987, backing board, paper, Swedish/English: no. 48, Statens Konstmuseer, A New World 1986-87
  • inscription: verso, right edge, graphite: 2020
  • inscription: verso, top, brown ink: 21
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Sold

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Winslow Homer, sold [through J. Eastman Chase, Boston, 1882]; to John T. Morse, Jr., Boston, 1882, sold [through F. W. Bayley and Son, Boston, circa 1922]; to Horace D. Chapin, Boston, circa 1922, gift; to his sister, Mrs. Robert B. Osgood, Boston, 1937, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.232
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Copley Society, Copley Society Catalogue of Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1921), cat. 38
  • Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1942), pg. 105, repro.
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-262, p. 297
  • Görel Cavalli-Björkman and Nils Göran Hökby, En Ny Värld, Amerikanst Landskapmåleri, 1830-1900/ A New World, American Landscape Painting, 1830-1900, exh. cat., Gothenburg Art Museum and National Museum Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden, 1986), cat. 48, repro.
  • Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 113, 249; reproduced in b/w fig .103
  • Tony Knipe, ed., Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures, exh. cat., Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK, 1988), pg. 108
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in Cullercoats, Station Press (Port Seton, UK, 1995), pp. 66, 86
  • Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in England, Hornby Editions (Ocean Park, ME, 2004), pg. 82, repro.
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.1, pp. 72-74, no. 1071, repr. p. 73
  • 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. 158, cat. no. 120, reproduced in color
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), p. 6, repr. p. 17
  • Elizabeth Athens, Brandon Ruud, and Martha Tedeschi, Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Worcester, MA and Milwaukee, WI, 2017), cat. no. 27, pp. 77, 79, 164, repr. p. 109

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/08/1911 - 03/08/1911
  • Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, Copley Society of Boston, 03/05/1921 - 03/22/1921
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/01/1924 - 08/31/1924
  • Water Colors by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1932 - 06/15/1932
  • Paintings and Drawings by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 06/30/1986
  • A New World, American Landscape Painting, National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, 09/18/1986 - 11/23/1986; Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, 12/06/1986 - 02/15/1987
  • Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 03/02/2018 - 05/20/2018

Verification Level

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