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A Good Pool, Saguenay River

Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

A Good Pool, Saguenay River

1895

Medium watercolor over graphite, with scraping on cream wove paper
Dimensions 9 3/4 x 18 7/8 in. (24.7 x 47.9 cm) Frame: 18 3/8 x 27 9/16 in. (46.7 x 70 cm)
Object Number 1955.1492
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, A Good Pool, Saguenay River, 1895, watercolor over graphite, with scraping on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1492

Select Bibliography

Unger, Miles. The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Junker, Patricia and Sarah Burns. Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Thames & Hudson; Fort Worth: The Amon Carter Museum; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2002. Philadelphia Water Color Club. Third Annual Exhibition of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1906. 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. Mills, Sally. Japanese Influences in American Art 1853-1900. Exhibition catalogue. 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. Russell, Bruce. Three American Artists in Quebec: Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Milton Avery. Exhibition catalogue. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1984. 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. Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer 1936-1910. Time-Life Library of Art. New York: Time-Life Books, 1966. Wilmerding, John. Winslow Homer. American Art & Artists. New York: Praeger, 1972. "The Art of Watercolor: Special Feature on Winslow Homer." Art and Man (November 1977). New York: Scholastic Publications, 1977. Wilmerding, John. "Winslow Homer's Right and Left." Studies in the History of Art 9 (Spring 1980). Cooper, Helen A. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Judge, Mary. Winslow Homer. The Q.L.P. Art Series. New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. "Winslow Homer: At Home on the Roaring Saguenay." Atlantic Salmon Journal 41, no. 3 (Autumn 1992): 22-29. Tatham, David. Winslow Homer: Fishing in the North Woods. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. Little, Carl. Winslow Homer: His Art, His Light, His Landscapes. Cobb, CA: First Glance Books, 1997. Kelly, Franklin. "Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of Homer" The Magazine Antiques 152, no. 4 (October 1997): 546-549. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Allen, Brian T. "Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute." American Art Review: Special edition, The Western Massachusetts Art Trail XVI, no. 3 (2004): 162-169. Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 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

The artist, d. 1910; Charles Savage Homer Jr., West Townsend, Mass., his brother, by descent; [Knoedler, 1911]; P. H. McMahon, Brooklyn (from 1913); Gustav Reichard, New York (sale, American Art Association, 16 – 17 Apr. 1917, no. 87, sold to Knoedler); [Knoedler, sold to Clark, 23 Apr. 1917]; Sterling Clark (1917–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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