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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Standing Man Looking Away from Two Drowning Figures (Study for Undertow)

1886

Medium graphite on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions 5 3/4 x 7 5/16 in. (14.6 x 18.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.1481.3 recto
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Standing Man Looking Away from Two Drowning Figures (Study for Undertow), 1886, graphite on blue-gray wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1481.3 recto

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. 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. Judge, Mary. Winslow Homer. The Q.L.P. Art Series. New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. 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. Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Lawrence, James. "Exhibition Review: Winslow Homer. Williamstown." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1233 (December 2005): 84850. Polley, Robert L., ed. Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums. Text by Harold E. Haydon. New York: Putnam's, 1967.

Provenance

The artist, given to Adams, 1900; Edward D. Adams, New York (1900–1925, given to Clark, with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, as agent); Sterling and Francine Clark (1925–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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