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Hunting for Eggs

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.

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