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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Summer Squall

1904

Summer Squall was inspired by a sudden storm Homer observed from his studio at Prouts Neck, Maine. Thick strokes of white paint suggest the foaming water violently surging over and around the flat rock in the foreground, which in better weather was one of the artist’s favorite fishing spots. The solitary sailboat in the distance enhances the painting’s drama, evoking the human struggle with the forces of nature.

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 24 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (61.6 x 76.8 cm) Frame: 34 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 40 in. (87.6 x 9.5 x 101.6 cm)
Object Number 1955.8
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Summer Squall, 1904, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.8

Select Bibliography

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New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. 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. Robertson, Bruce. Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence. Exhibition catalogue. Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990. Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Mainescapes: 19001912. Exhibition cattalogue. Ogunquit, ME: Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 1993. Hunter, Sam, and Melissa Medeiros. The Rise of the Art World in America: Knoedler at 150. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Knoedler & Co., 1996. Koja, Stephan, ed. America: The New World in 19th-Century Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Munich: Prestel, 1999. Pittsburgh Times. "Art Exhibition is an Especially Fine One." November 3, 1904. Pittsburgh Gazette. "Tribute is Paid to Art Workers." November 3, 1903. Pittsburgh Dispatch. 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New York: Time, Inc., 1957. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer. New York: George Braziller, 1959. Grolier Encyclopedia. New York: Grolier, 1961. Frankenstein, Alfred. "American Art and American Moods." Art in America 54 (MarchApril 1966). Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1966. Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer 1936-1910. Time-Life Library of Art. New York: Time-Life Books, 1966. McLanathan, Richard. The American Tradition in the Arts. New York: Harcourt Brade and World, 1968. Hoopes, Donelson F. Winslow Homer Watercolors. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1969. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Beam, Philip C. The Magazine Engravings of Winslow Homer. Icon Editions series. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981. Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1983. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Conrads, Margaret C. American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Kelly, Franklin. "'So Clean and Cold': Bellows and the Sea." in The Paintings of George Bellows by Michael Quick, et al. Exhibition catalogue. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams: 1992. Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Translated and edited by Paula Baldwin Lind and Braulio Fernández Biggs as La Tempestad. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria S.A., 2010. Unger, Miles. The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Conforti, Michael, et al. The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. Foster, Kathleen A. Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia:, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005.

Provenance

[M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1904]; Morris J. Hirsch, New York (from 1904); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1915]; [John Levy Galleries, New York, 1915]; Harold S. Somers, New York; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 16 June 1923]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1923–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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