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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

West Point, Prout's Neck

1900

Seawater surges around massive rocks as bands of brilliant color stretch across the horizon, casting a rosy glow over the ocean. “The picture is painted fifteen minutes after sunset—not one minute before,” wrote Homer about this work, which he considered to be among his best paintings. To record such a fleeting moment, he explained, took “many days of careful observation” from a specific point along the Maine coast, near his studio in Prouts Neck.

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 1/16 x 48 1/8 in. (76.4 x 122.2 cm) Frame: 39 5/8 x 57 11/16 x 2 5/8 in. (100.6 x 146.5 x 6.7 cm)
Object Number 1955.7
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.7

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Adler, Margaret, Homer / Remington, exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Provenance

[M. Knoedler & Co., sold to Harrison, 31 Jan. 1901]; Hugh H. Harrison, New York (from 1901); George W. Young, New Rochelle, N.Y. (c. 1902); [I. A. Rose, New York, 1902]; Dr. George G. Heye, New York (by 1903–c. 1941); [Pascal M. Gatterdam, New York]; [Babcock Galleries, New York, 1941]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 26 Nov. 1941]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1941–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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