Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910 Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873-1876 oil on canvas Overall: 61.5 x 97 cm (24 3/16 x 38 3/16 in.) framed: 90.5 x 126.4 cm (35 5/8 x 49 3/4 in.) Gift of the W. L. and May T. Mellon Foundation 1943.13.1 Not on View |
Object 6 of 8
| 1876 | "Art Matters, A Hasty Glance at the Academy Exhibition." New York Evening Express (20 April 1876). |
| 1876 | "Fine Arts. Fifty-first Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design." New York Times (26 March 1876). |
| 1876 | "Fine Arts. National Academy of Design--Fifty-first Annual Exhibition."New York Tribune (1 April 1876). |
| 1876 | "Fine Arts. The National Academy Exhibition. II." Nation 22 (20 April 1876): 268. |
| 1876 | "Fine Arts." New York Evening Post (5 January 1876). |
| 1876 | "The Arts. Representative Pictures at the Academy." Appleton's Journal 15 (15 April 1876): 508. |
| 1876 | "The Arts: The Academy Exhibition." Appleton's Journal 15 (22 April 1876): 539. |
| 1876 | "The Fine Arts. Exhibition of the National Academy." New York Times (8 April 1876). |
| 1876 | "The National Academy of Design (Second Notice)." Art Jounal 2 (1876):190. |
| 1876 | "The National Academy of Design." New York Sun (30 April 1876). |
| 1877 | "Fine Arts. American Paintings." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (26 February 1877). |
| 1878 | Sheldon, George W. "American Painters--Winslow Homer and F.A. Bridgman." Art Journal 4 (August 1878). |
| 1879 | Benjamin, Samuel G.W. "Present Tendencies of American Art." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 58 (March 1879): 488, repro. 488, as Sail Boat. |
| 1879 | Sheldon, George William. American Painters. New York, 1879. |
| 1880 | Benjamin, Samuel G.W. Art in America: A Critical and Historical Sketch. New York, 1877: 124, repro. 124, as Sail Boat. |
| 1880 | Strahan, Edward (pseud. of Earl Shinn). The Art Treasures of America. 3 vols. Philadelphia, 1880. Reprint, New York, 1977: 2:92. |
| 1887 | "Paintings at the Union League Club." New York Tribune (11 March 1887), as Breezing Up. |
| 1889 | Montgomery, Walter, ed. American Art and American Art Collections. 2 vols. Boston, 1889. Reprint, New York and London 1978: 2:718, 720, as A Fair Wind. |
| 1911 | Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York, 1911: 90. |
| 1932 | Bolton, Theodore. "The Art of Winslow Homer: An Estimate." Fine Arts 18 (February 1932): 53. |
| 1943 | Carlyle Burrows. "Art Events of the Week." New York Herald Tribune (27 June 1943). |
| 1944 | Art Digest 18 (1 January 1944): 11, repro. |
| 1944 | Goodrich, Lloyd. "Young Winslow Homer." Magazine of Art 37 (February 1944): repro. 59. |
| 1944 | Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer. New York, 1944: 70, 72, repro. 11. |
| 1944 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 174, color repro. |
| 1946 | Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 73-75, color repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1947 | "American Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries in the Tate Gallery Exhibition." Antiques 51 (February 1947): no. 68, repro. 107. |
| 1947 | Gibbs, Josephine. "Honoring Homer." Art Digest 21 (1 March 1947): 10, repro. 10. |
| 1947 | Louchheim, Aline B. "Homer: Success Story; This Retrospective Accents High Spots." Art News 45 (March 1947): 40-41, 59-60, color repro. 40. |
| 1948 | Walker, John. "American Masters in the National Gallery of Art." National Geographic Magazine 94 (September 1948): 323, color repro. 29. |
| 1951 | Walker, John. Paintings from America. Harmondsworth, England, 1951: 29 and 44, no. 29, color repro. 29. |
| 1956 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 56, repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1958 | Porter, Fairfield. "Homer, American vs. Artist: A Problem in Identities." Art News 57 (December 1958): 56. |
| 1959 | Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer. New York, 1959: repro. 29. |
| 1959 | Bouton, Margaret. American Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number One in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1960 | The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20, as Breezing Up. |
| 1961 | Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck. Winslow Homer American Artist: His World and His Work. New York, 1961: 197, color repro. 73. |
| 1962 | Gould, Jean. Winslow Homer: A Portrait. New York, 1962: 152, 166, repro. opp. 166. |
| 1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 290, repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1966 | Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck. Boston, 1966: 11. |
| 1966 | Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck. Exh. cat. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick, Maine, 1966: n.p. |
| 1966 | Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer, 1836-1910. New York, 1966: 88, color repro. 88-89. |
| 1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:490, color repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1967 | Wilmerding, John. Pittura Americana dell'Ottocento. Milan, 1967: 27, color repro. 491. |
| 1968 | Wilmerding, John. A History of American Marine Painting. Salem, Massachusetts, 1968: 214, 218, 221, repro. 216. |
| 1969 | Prown, Jules David. American Painting: From Its beginnings to the Armory Show. Geneva, 1969. Reprint, Geneva, 1977: 87, 89, 90, color repro. 87. |
| 1970 | American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 68, repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1971 | Campbell, William P. "The American Heritage at the National Gallery of Art." The Connoisseur 178 (December 1971): repro. 269. |
| 1972 | Wilmerding, John. Winslow Homer. New York, 1972: 92, 94, 134, 174, detail color repro. 127. |
| 1973 | Williams, Hermann Warner. Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting, 1750-1900. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973: 183. |
| 1975 | Stein, Roger B. Seascape and the American Imagination. New York, 1975: 137. |
| 1975 | Wilmerding, John. Audubon, Homer, Whistler, and Nineteenth Century America. New York, 1975: 12, 13, color repro. 61. |
| 1976 | Wilmerding, John. American Art. Hammondsworth, England, and New York, 1976: 134, pl. 160. |
| 1978 | King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 103, pl. 65, as Breezing Up. |
| 1979 | Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York, 1979: 118-119, 275, 276, 282, color repro. 107. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 9, 15, no. 34, color repro. |
| 1980 | Wilmerding, John. "Winslow Homer's Right and Left." Studies in the History of Art 9 (1980): 64, repro. |
| 1980 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 176, repro., as Breezing Up. |
| 1981 | Williams 1981, 172, 173. repro. 174. |
| 1983 | Beam, Philip C. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Brunswick, Maine, 1983: 14, 19, 28, 46. |
| 1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 554, no. 842, color repro. |
| 1986 | Cooper, Helen A. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Washington, 1986: 38, 245, color repro. 39. |
| 1986 | Judge, Mary A. Winslow Homer. New York, 1986: 45, color repro. 33. |
| 1987 | Prown, Jules David. "Winslow Homer in His Art." Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1 (Spring 1987): 41-42, repro. 36. |
| 1987 | Wilmerding, John. American Marine Painting. Rev. ed. of A History of American Marine Painting, 1968. New York, 1987: 151, 157, color repro. 158. |
| 1988 | Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington (rev. ed.), 1988: 120, no. 37, color repro. |
| 1990 | Wilmerding, John, and Linda Ayres. Winslow Homer in the 1870's: Selections from the Valentine-Pulsifer Collection. Exh. cat. The Art Museum, Princeton University; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Princeton, 1990: 16, 44, 46-49, repro. 44. |
| 1990 | Carren, Rachel Ann. "From Reality to Symbol: Images of Children in the Art of Winslow Homer." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1990: 1:viii, 106-118, 215; 2:repro. 41. |
| 1990 | Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "Homer around 1900." In Winslow Homer: A Symposium. Edited by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. In Studies in the History of Art 26 (1990): 144-145, repro. 144. |
| 1990 | Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "Winslow Homer's Unfinished Business." Studies in the History of Art 37 (1990): 102. |
| 1990 | Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. Winslow Homer. New York, 1990: 56, 58, 61, 87, 147, color repro. 59. |
| 1991 | Wilmerding, John. American Views: Essays on American Art. Princeton, 1991: 208, 227, 312, 337-338 n.50, 340 n.10, repro. 206. |
| 1992 | American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 204, repro. |
| 1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 241, repro. |
| 1995 | Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996: no. 76. |
| 1995 | Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Washington, D.C., 1995: 143-145, color repro. 144. |
| 1996 | Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 312-318, color repro. |
| 1997 | Ross, Novelene. Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, Wichita, Kansas, 1997, p. 66, no. 3, repro. |
| 1998 | Haltman, Kenneth. "Antipastoralism in Early Winslow Homer" in Art Bulletin, Vol. LXXX, No. 1. 1998: 106-107, repro. no. 23. |
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