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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Netting the Fish
    Winslow Homer. Netting the Fish, 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002267

    Netting the Fish

    by Winslow Homer

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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