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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Lemon

1876

Medium watercolor over graphite, with touches of gouache, on cream wove paper
Dimensions 18 7/8 x 11 15/16 in. (47.9 x 30.3 cm) Frame: 26 x 19 1/2 in. (66 x 49.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.1494
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Lemon, 1876, watercolor over graphite, with touches of gouache, on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1494

Select Bibliography

Burns, Sarah. "Winslow Homer's Rab and the Girls: A Riddle in Paint." The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art 3, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2002): 2726. Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. American Watercolor Society. Tenth Annual Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. New York: American Water Color Society,1877. 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. Gengarelly, Anthony W. The Image of Women in the Mauve Decade: Edward Penfield and His Contemporaries. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark At Institute, 1985. 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. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Charles Moffett, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995. Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Winslow Homer. Master Draughtsman series, vol. 45. Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing, 1970. Adams, Henry. "Winslow Homer's 'Shall I Tell Your Fortune.'" Birmingham Museum of Art Bulletin. 1983: n.p. Adams, Henry. "Winslow Homer's Mystery Woman." Art & Antiques (Nov. 1984): 3845. Cooper, Helen A. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 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. Adams, Henry. "The Identity of Winslow Homer's `Mystery Woman.'" The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1045 (April 1990): pp. 244–52. Burns, Sarah. "Rab and the Girls: A Riddle in Paint." In Winslow Homer, An American Genius at the Parthenon: The Move Toward Abstraction, by Susan E. Shockley. Exhibition catalogue. Nashville: The Parthenon, 2000. Conrads, Margaret C. Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s. Exhibition catalogue. Princeton: Princeton University Press in conjunction with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2001. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Wilmerding, John. Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings. Yale University Press. 2003. 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. Carter, S. N. "The Tenth New York Water-Colour Exhibition." The Art Journal New Series 3 (1877): 956. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911.

Provenance

William Crowninshield Rogers, Boston (c. 1880–d. 1888); William B. Rogers, Sherborn, Mass., his son, by descent (from 1888); [M. Knoedler & Co., sold to Clark, 6 Feb. 1924]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1924–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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