Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011259About the Artwork
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873
Exhibition history
Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (organizer) (April 17-June 11, 1947). The Work of Winslow Homer. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (February 1-28, 1951); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (March 1-April 1, 1951). Winslow Homer: Portrait of America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966). American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (October 6, 2001-January 6, 2002). Homer at the Beach. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA (organizer) (August 2-December 1, 2019).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19.7 x 34.6 cm (7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson
- Accession no.
- 1945.229
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