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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Fishing off Scarborough
    Winslow Homer. Fishing off Scarborough, 1882. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002298

    Fishing off Scarborough

    by Winslow Homer

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Winslow Homer/1882"

    Provenance

    Alexander W. Drake, New York, by 1911 [New York exh. cat. 1911]; sold to the Macbeth Gallery, New York; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, June 1, 1917; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer," February 6–March 19, 1911, pp. 34–35, cat. 32. Indianapolis, Ind., John Herron Art Institute, "Memorial Exhibition of Winslow Homer," November 15–December 12, 1911, cat. 9. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer Lent by Martin A. Ryerson," October 1–26, 1920, no cat. Muskegon, Mich., Hackley Art Gallery, "Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer, Lent by Martin Ryerson," May 9–June 20, 1921, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Martin Ryerson Collection," July–September, 1921, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Second International Water Color Exhibition," April 15–May 21, 1922, p. 20, cat. 208. Omaha Society of Fine Arts, December 26, 1924–February 3, 1925, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer from the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson," April 1926, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer from the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson," July–Fall, 1926, no cat. The Buffalo Fine Art Academy, Albright Art Gallery, "An Important Group of Paintings in Oil and Water Color by Winslow Homer: Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago," December 15, 1929–January 6, 1930, cat. 19. City Art Museum of St. Louis, "Water Colors by Winslow Homer Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago," December 15, 1932–January 15, 1933, no cat. Indianapolis, Ind., John Herron Art Institute, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago," November 1–December 15, 1936, no cat. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Winslow Homer Centenary Exhibition," December 15, 1936–January 15, 1937, p. 28, cat. 110. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Twenty-Two Watercolors by Winslow Homer," April 13–May 14, 1944 (Gallery G59), no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Water Colors and Drawings by Winslow Homer," October 14–December 4, 1944 (Gallery 13), no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light," February 16-May 11, 2008, pp. 17, 60, 86, 97, 100 (ill.), 108, cat. by Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm. Toledo Museum of Art, "Homer," Nov. 21, 2008-Feb. 8, 2009.

    Publications

    The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 164, no. 2383. Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p. (ill.). Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout’s Neck (Boston, 1966), p. 23. William H. Gerdts, “Winslow Homer in Cullercoats,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 36: 2 (Spring 1977), p. 26. Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (New York, 1979), pp. 164 and 284, fig. CL–101. Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1986), pp. 110 and 249, fig. 105. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, Winslow Homer, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1995), p. 216, fig. 161. Miles Unger, The Watercolors of Winslow Homer (New York, 2001), pp. 97 and 219 (ill.). Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer in England, 3rd edition (Concord, 2004), p. 21, fig. E131.

    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
    1882
    Medium
    Graphite and opaque white watercolor, with traces of black chalk, on medium weight, slightly-textured, tan laid paper with blue and red fibers
    Dimensions
    46.2 × 61.8 cm (18 1/4 × 24 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1239

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