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A group of men running up onto the beach carrying a boat.

A loose charcoal or graphite drawing of men running up onto the shore from the water. In the foreground a man is running with his arm held behind him, holding bundles on his back. Just past him a group of men run up, working together to hold a medium sized boat. In the distance there are cliffs rising up from the beach, topped with large square buildings with rooves that slope toward the beach.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.202
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Men Beaching a Boat
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1881 - 1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 18.3 x 31.8 cm (7 3/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[William Macbeth Inc., New York NY, 1902/1908], sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA, 1908, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.202
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, "An American Artist in England", The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (November 1883), vol. 27 (n.s. vol. 5), pp. 13-21, ill. p. 13
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), fig. 258, p. 163
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 4.1, p. 79, no. 1079, repr. p. 79
  • 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. 29, p. 164, repr. p. 111
  • "It's a Wash", Index Magazine ([e-journal], May 2, 2018), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/it-s-a-wash, accessed May 7, 2018

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/08/1911 - 03/08/1911
  • [Winslow Homer exhibition], Symphony Hall, Boston, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
  • Unidentified Exhibition, University of Redlands, 1941, University of Redlands, Redlands, 01/25/1941 - 02/27/1941
  • American Paintings from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Symphony Hall, Boston, 02/21/1958 - 03/15/1958
  • Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 03/02/2018 - 05/20/2018

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