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image of Home, Sweet Home
Winslow Homer (painter)
American, 1836 - 1910
Home, Sweet Home, c. 1863
oil on canvas
Overall: 54.6 x 41.9 cm (21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.) framed: 77.2 x 64 x 7.6 cm (30 3/8 x 25 3/16 x 3 in.)
Patrons' Permanent Fund
1997.72.1
From the Tour: Homer and Eakins: American Painters in the Late 1800s
Object 5 of 8

Exhibition History

1863
Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1863, no. 371.
1944
Oils and Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October-November 1944, unnumbered checklist.
1944
Winslow Homer, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, November-December 1944, no. 1.
1950
American Processional: 1492-1900, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1950, no. 238.
1958
Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958-1959, no. 1, repro.
1959
A Retrospective Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959, no. 1, repro.
1961
The Civil War: The Artists' Record, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1961-1962, no. 37, repro.
1963
Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, 1963, no. 124, repro.
1973
Winslow Homer. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, no. 1, repro.
1974
The Painter's America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Oakland Museum, California, 1974-1975, no. 54, fig. 75.
1995
Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, no. 2, repro.
1997
Winslow Homer and the Civil War: Recent Acquisitions. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no cat.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2005
Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure.

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