
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002267Netting the Fish
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Winslow Homer 1890, Copyright 1889"
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn, Chicago, by May 1, 1930 [Chicago 1930; see R4492]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors lent by Mrs. L. L. Coburn," July 24–Oct 12, 1930, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "Water Colors and Drawings by Winslow Homer," October 14–December 4, 1944 (Gallery 13), no cat. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer," November 1968–June 1970, cat. 105A, pl. 101. Fort Worth, Tex., Amon Carter Museum, and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Casting a Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler," December 7, 2002–February 9, 2003, April 11–June 22, 2003, pp. 44 and 229, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Patricia Junker et al. Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light," February 16-May 11, 2008, pp. 16, 23, 94, 139, 142, 143 (ill.), 145, 212, chap. 4 n. 17, cat. by Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm.
Publications
Theodore Bolton, “Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue,” The Fine Arts 18: 5 (April 1932), p. 54, as 'Man Fishing'. Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (New York, 1979), pp. 200–01 and 286, fig. 302. David Tatham, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks (Syracuse, 1996), pp. 99–100 and 140, fig. 34.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Winslow Homer / American, 1836-1910
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.3 × 50.8 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.526
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