Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
Fish and Butterflies
1900
| Medium | watercolor over graphite, on cream wove paper |
| Dimensions | 14 7/16 x 20 11/16 in. (36.7 x 52.5 cm) Frame: 22 1/16 x 29 5/16 in. (56 x 74.5 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.775 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Winslow Homer, Fish and Butterflies, 1900, watercolor over graphite, on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.775
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Junker, Patricia and Sarah Burns. Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Thames & Hudson; Fort Worth: The Amon Carter Museum; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2002.
Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Sixteen: Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
Johnston, Sona, introd. Winslow Homer Works on Paper. Exhibition brochure. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1978.
Mills, Sally. Japanese Influences in American Art 1853-1900. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981.
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.
Adirondack Museum. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Exhibition catalogue. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1959.
"Fish and Fishermen in the Art of Winslow Homer." The Conservationist (May 1972).
Wilmerding, John. "Winslow Homer's Right and Left." Studies in the History of Art 9 (Spring 1980).
Judge, Mary. Winslow Homer. The Q.L.P. Art Series. New York: Crown Publishers, 1986.
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Tatham, David. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979.
Tatham, David. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. 1996. Reprint, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005.
Adler, Margaret, Homer / Remington, exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Provenance
The artist, d. 1910; Charles Savage Homer Jr., West Townsend, Mass., his brother, by descent (1910–d. 1917); Martha E. Homer, West Townsend, Mass., his wife, by descent (1917–d. 1937); Arthur P. and Charles L. Homer, by descent (from 1937); [Robert B. Campbell, Boston, c. 1950]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Clark, 28 Mar. 1951]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1951–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
