Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
Three Central Figures (Study for Undertow)
c. 1886
Medium | graphite on beige wove paper |
Dimensions | 5 3/4 x 8 15/16 in. (14.6 x 22.7 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.1481.6 recto |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Winslow Homer, Three Central Figures (Study for Undertow), c. 1886, graphite on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1481.6 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.
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.