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Head with Sailor Hat

Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Head with Sailor Hat

c. 1886

Medium chalk on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions 5 3/4 x 7 5/16 in. (14.6 x 18.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.1481.3 verso
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Head with Sailor Hat, c. 1886, chalk on blue-gray wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1481.3 verso

Select Bibliography

Murphy, Alexandra. Winslow Homer in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. With contributions by Rafael Fernandez and Jennifer Gordon. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1986. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Charles Moffett, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995. Judge, Mary. Winslow Homer. The Q.L.P. Art Series. New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Lawrence, James. "Exhibition Review: Winslow Homer. Williamstown." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1233 (December 2005): 84850. Polley, Robert L., ed. Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums. Text by Harold E. Haydon. New York: Putnam's, 1967.

Provenance

The artist, given to Adams, 1900; Edward D. Adams, New York (1900–1925, given to Clark, with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, as agent); Sterling and Francine Clark (1925–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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