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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Water Fan
    Winslow Homer. The Water Fan, 1898/99. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002540

    The Water Fan

    by Winslow Homer

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, in brush and black watercolor: "Homer" Inscribed verso, lower left edge, in graphite: "7073"; upper center, in graphite: "The Water Glass/Nassau"

    Provenance

    The artist to James W. Young, Chicago, 1907; sold by J.W. Young Galleries, Chicago, to William (1854–1923) and Mary (Mrs. William) Holabird, c. 1908 [according to correspondence from Abigail Booth Gerdts to the Art Institute, February 10, 2007]; by descent to their son, John A. Holabird (1886–1945); by descent to his wife, Dorothy (1897–1988); given to the Art Institute, 1972.

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, J.W. Young Galleries, "Ten Watercolors by Winslow Homer," opened January 11, 1908, no. 8, no cat. Tucson, Ariz., The University of Arizona Art Gallery, "Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors, and Graphics by Winslow Homer," October 1–December 1, 1963, pp. 55 and 84, cat. 62 (ill.). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Winslow Homer," April 3–June 3, 1973, p. 141, cat. 152, cat. by Lloyd Goodrich; also traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum, July 1–August 15, 1973; and The Art Institute of Chicago, September 8–October 21, 1973. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–83," July 27–September 22, 1985, pp. 172–73, cat. 79 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light," February 16-May 11, 2008, pp. 15, 180, 181 (ill.), 185, 211, cat. by Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent", February 23 - May 14, 2017, pp. 314-316, fig. 265 (ill.), cat. by Kathleen A. Foster.

    Publications

    Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (New York, 1959), p. 29, pl. 85. Patti Hannaway, Winslow Homer in the Tropics (Richmond, 1973), pp. 236–37, pl. 48. Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (New York, 1979), p. 286, fig. CL–122. James N. Wood and Debra N. Mancoff, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 2000), p. 180 (ill). Megan Holloway Fort, “Current and coming,” The Magazine Antiques 173: 2 (February 2008), pp. 14 (ill.).

    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
    1898/99
    Medium
    Watercolor, with blotting and touches of scraping, over graphite, on thick, rough twill-textured, ivory wove paper
    Dimensions
    37.4 × 53.4 cm (14 3/4 × 21 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Style
    Realism
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Dorothy A., John A., Jr., and Christopher Holabird in memory of William and Mary Holabird
    Accession no.
    1972.190

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