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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Eastern Point

1900

Homer completed Eastern Point in just one month, confidently recording the turbulent weather conditions near his studio in Maine. The surf, vigorously painted in deep blue green and opaque white, churns beneath an ominous gray sky. Rocks jut from the kelp-strewn beach, their uneven surfaces described with touches of red, ocher, and yellow. When this painting was exhibited in 1901, a New York critic hailed it as “quite the next thing to a brisk tramp along the shore on a stormy day.”

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 1/4 x 48 1/2 in. (76.8 x 123.2 cm) Frame: 38 3/4 x 57 x 3 3/4 in. (98.4 x 144.8 x 9.5 cm)
Object Number 1955.6
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Eastern Point, 1900, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.6

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Provenance

[M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1901–3, sold to Bloomingdale, 9 Jan. 1903]; Lyman G. Bloomingdale, New York (1903–d. 1905); Hattie Bloomingdale, his wife, by descent (1905–23); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 12 Dec. 1923]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1923–29); [M. Knoedler & Co., 1929]; [Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1929]; Thomas Cochran, New York (1929, given to the Addison); Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. (1929–54); [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 6 Nov. 1954]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1954–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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