Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
Hunting for Eggs
1874
Medium | gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper |
Dimensions | 9 13/16 x 5 9/16 in. (24.9 x 14.1 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.1497 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Winslow Homer, Hunting for Eggs, 1874, gouache, watercolor, and graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1497
Select Bibliography
Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Sixteen: Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979.
Murphy, Alexandra. Winslow Homer in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. With contributions by Rafael Fernandez and Jennifer Gordon. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1986.
Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer 1936-1910. Time-Life Library of Art. New York: Time-Life Books, 1966.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Winslow Homer. Master Draughtsman series, vol. 45. Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing, 1970.
Wilmerding, John and Linda Ayres. Winslow Homer in the 1870s: Selections from the Valentine-Pulsifer Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1990.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005.
Provenance
John Taylor Johnson, New York (his sale, Somerville Art Gallery, 19–22 Dec. 1876, no. 273, sold to Fraser);G. S. Fraser (from 1876); private collection, Boston; [Clyfford Trevor, New York, sold to Clark, 8 Jan. 1947]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1947–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.