Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
The Eagle's Nest
1902
| Medium | watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper |
| Dimensions | 21 9/16 x 13 9/16 in. (54.7 x 34.5 cm) Frame: 30 1/8 x 22 3/16 in. (76.5 x 56.4 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1502 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Winslow Homer, The Eagle's Nest, 1902, watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1502
Select Bibliography
Unger, Miles. The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Compton, Annette Carroll. Drawing from the Mind, Painting from the Heart: 12 Essential Lessons to Becoming a Better Artist. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.
Philadelphia Water Color Club. Catalogue of the Eighth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1910.
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.
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.
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
Goodrich, Lloyd. "Winslow Homer." The Arts 6 (October 1924).
Bolton, Theodore. "Watercolors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue." Fine Arts 18 (April 1932): 23–28, 52–55.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer. New York: Published for The Whitney Museum of American Art by Macmillan Co., 1944.
Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer 1936-1910. Time-Life Library of Art. New York: Time-Life Books, 1966.
Cox, Kenyon. The Classical Point of View. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.
Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979.
Tadeschi, Martha, and Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.
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.
Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005.
Provenance
[Doll & Richards, Boston, 1905–6, returned to the artist, 17 Apr. 1906]; the artist; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1906–7]; J. R. Andrews, New York (1907–16, sale, American Art Association, 28 Jan. 1916, no. 109); Harold S. Somers, New York; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1916–17, sold to Clark, 19 Mar. 1917]; Sterling Clark (1917–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
