Harvard Art Museums > 1943.301: Waves on A Rocky Coast Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Waves on A Rocky Coast (Winslow Homer) , 1943.301,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307922. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.301 People Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME) Title Waves on A Rocky Coast Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1883 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/307922 Physical Descriptions Medium Watercolor over graphite and black chalk on white wove paper Dimensions 35.4 x 50.5 cm (13 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black watercolor, l.r.: HOMER 83 [and above that, barely decipherable] Winslow Homer inscription: verso, graphite: Winslow Homer / Painted 1883 inscription: u.r., graphite: 32 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Charles A. Green, Rochester, NY, before 1916, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1919]; to William J. Johnson, Uniontown, PA, 1919, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1934] [via Martin Birnbaum, 1934] [1]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, NY, 1934, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943 [1] Birnbaum wrote to Winthrop on November 1, 1934, urging him to buy the “superb Homer marine” he had just seen at Macbeth. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.301 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 242 Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-277, p. 298 Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.2, p. 264, no. 1211, repr. p. 264, repr. in color p. 530 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. 162-163, cat. no. 38, reproduced in color, p. 163 Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), p. 6, repr. pp.10-11 (details), 12 Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 64-67, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 64, fig. 2 on p. 65, fig. 3 on p. 66 [detail] Exhibition History Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
