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Perils of the Sea

Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Perils of the Sea

1881

Medium watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions 14 5/8 x 20 15/16 in. (37.1 x 53.2 cm) Frame: 23 x 29 5/16 in. (58.4 x 74.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.774
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Perils of the Sea, 1881, watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.774

Select Bibliography

Unger, Miles. The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Demarest, Robert J. Traveling with Winslow Homer: America's Premier Artist/Angler. New York: Apple Trees Productions, LLC. 2002. Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catalogue of the Collection of Thomas B. Clarke. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1891. Union League Club. The Paintings of Two AmericansGeorge Inness and Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Union League Club, 1898. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Water Color Club.. Eighth Annual Exhibition.. Nov. 14-Dec. 18, 1910.. American Watercolor society. Forty-fourth Annual Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. New York: American Watercolor Society, 1911. Carnegie Institute. Exhibition of Paintings Lent by Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys. Exhibition catalogue. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1914. Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer Centenary Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1936. Wildenstein & Co. Loan Exhibition of Winslow Homer: For the Benefit of the New York Botanical Garden. Exhibition catalogue. With an essay by Lloyd Goodrich. New York: Wildenstein & Co., 1947. 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. Goodrich, Lloyd. The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Foreword by Donald H. Karshan. New York: Museum of Graphic Art, 1968. Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1983. 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. Knipe, Tony. Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures. Exhibition catalogue. Sunderland, England: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 1988. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Charles Moffett, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995. Harper's Weekly 43, no. 2199 (11 February 1899): 145. Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. Caffin, Charles H. American Masters of Painting. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous Painters of America. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co,. 1916. Bolton, Theodore. "Watercolors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue." Fine Arts 18 (April 1932): 23–28, 52–55. Johnson, Allen and Dumas Malone, eds. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Goodrich, Lloyd. "A 'Lost' Winslow Homer." Worcester Art Museum Annual 3 (1937-38): 6973. Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer: A Biography. Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1944. Wilmerding, John. Winslow Homer. American Art & Artists. New York: Praeger, 1972. Spassky, Natalie. "Winslow Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 39, no. 4 (Spring 1982): 12, 448. Cooper, Helen A. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. McConkey, Kenneth. "Winslow Homer at Cullercoats." In T. E. Faulkner, ed., Northumbrian Panorama: Studies in the History and Culture of North East New England. London: Octavian Press,1996: 223-240. Little, Carl. Winslow Homer: His Art, His Light, His Landscapes. Cobb, CA: First Glance Books, 1997. Johns, Elizabeth. Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of Califorinia Press, Ltd., 2002. 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. The Lotos Club. Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Dr. Alex Humphreys. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Lotos Club, 1913. Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Winslow Homer Memorial Exhibition: Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911. Foster, Kathleen A. Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia:, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. American Art Association. Catalogue of the Private Art Collection of Thomas B. Clarke, New York. Auction catalogue. New York: American Art Association, 1899. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Philadelphia Water Color Club. Catalogue of the Eighth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1910. Dpll & Richards. [Catalogue of English & Maine Subjects]. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Doll & Richards, 1883. New York Athletic Club. Catalogue of the Third Annual Art Loan Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Athletic Club, 1889. Union League Club. Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of Water Colors. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Union League Club, 1889. Chicago Inter-state Industrial Exposition. Catalogue of the Paintings Exhibited by the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, 1889. Lawrence, James. "Exhibition Review: Winslow Homer. Williamstown." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1233 (December 2005): 84850.

Provenance

Thomas B. Clarke (by 1889–99, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 14–18 Feb. 1899, no. 269); Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, New York (1899–1917, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 14–15 Feb. 1917, no. 115); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1917]; Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York (1917); Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, New York (1917); Emma C. Larson; Francis Minot Weld Jr., New York (1927–d.1949); Julia Deforest Tiffany Weld, New York, his wife, by descent (from 1949); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 29 Mar. 1950]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1950–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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