Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002757Children Sitting on a Fence
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right corner, in graphite: "W.H. 74" Inscribed verso, lower left corner, in graphite: "Original drawing by Winslow Homer"
Provenance
Given by Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965) and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1888–1987) to the Art Institute, 1927.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Drawings from the Charles Deering Collection," March 24–July 1, 1928, 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. 42 (ill.), 43, 49, 92, cat. by Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm.
Publications
Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 22 (1928), p. 66. Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (New York, 1979), pp. 107 and 285, fig. CL–97. Margaret C. Conrads, “Children on a Fence, 1874,” in Nancy Mowll Mathews (ed.), American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art (New York, 2001), pp. 66-68 (ill.). Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Vol. 2: 1867 through 1876 (New York, 2005), cat. 527 (ill.).
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
- 1874
- Medium
- Various graphites, heightened with opaque white watercolor, on medium weight, slightly textured gray wove paper
- Dimensions
- 19.3 × 23.9 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Accession no.
- 1927.3522
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