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image of Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
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
From the Tour: Homer and Eakins: American Painters in the Late 1800s
Object 6 of 8

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Purchased from the artist by Charles Stewart Smith [1832-1909], New York, by 1878; by inheritance to his son, Howard Caswell Smith, Oyster Bay, New York; sold 1943 to (Wildenstein & Co., New York); purchased 31 December 1943 by NGA.

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