Sketch of a Cottage Yard, c. 1876

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 68

Medium

oil on academy board

Dimensions

overall: 26 × 36.8 cm (10 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.)

framed: 37.1 × 49.5 × 5.1 cm (14 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund and through the gift of Orme Wilson)

Accession Number

2014.136.83

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (painter) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Provenance

Acquired at auction in Boston c. 1878 by William S. Eaton, Boston; by descent to his son, Francis S. Eaton, Boston.[1] William Francis Cochran Ewing, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1946;[2] purchased 5 June 1950 by Oliver B. James, Oyster Bay, New York and Phoenix; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] purchased 24 April 1961 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Early provenance according to correspondence 3 May 1961 from M. Knoedler & Co. to Corcoran Gallery of Art. See NGA curatorial file.

[2] This painting is stock number A3406 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 9, A2681-A4782, 1943 November-1952 February, page 120 of the stockbook.

[3] Stock number A7978 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 11, A7178-A9437, 1959 February-1970 December, page 119 of the stockbook.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Eaton, Francis S.
Eaton, William S.
Ewing, William Francis Cochran
James, Oliver B.
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

1926: Long-term Loan, Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926.

1953: Summertime, U. S. A., Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1953, no. 11.

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 October-29 December 1963, unpublished checklist.

1988: Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years, Menil Collection, Houston; Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts, Richmond; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1988-1989.

2004: Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 November 2004-7 August 2005, unpublished checklist.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March-27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 302, repro.