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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 |
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Provenance
Samuel Putnam Avery, New York, possibly 1863 to 1867;[1] (his sale, Leeds Art Galleries, New York, 4-5 February 1867, 2nd day, no. 59);[2] Mrs. Alexander H. Shephard [or Shepherd], New York;[3] (Howard Young Galleries, New York); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), in 1918.[4] George M. L. LaBranche, New York, by 1944 until at least 1950.[5] Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shaye, Detroit, by 1958 until 1984;[6] (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1984, no. 19, bought in); consigned 29 August 1984 to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); sold 1 February 1985 to private collection; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, New York, 5 June 1997, no. 12); purchased by (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York) for NGA.[7]
[1] The painting was marked "for sale" in the catalogue of the 1863 National Academy of Design exhibition. According to "The Lounger. The National Academy of Design," Harper's Weekly 7, no. 331 (2 May 1863): 274, the painting was labeled "sold" by the second day of the exhibition. The buyer was possibly Avery.
[2] The first day of the Avery sale auctioned the "private collection of oil paintings by American artists, made...during the last fifteen years..." Home, Sweet Home was sold on the second day, and appears in the "Catalogue of oil paintings, being the balance of the stock consigned to S. P. Avery." Avery seems to have owned the painting only in order to sell it; it was not part of his personal collection.
[3] The name is spelled Shepherd in the 1984 Sotheby's sale catalogue, and Shephard in the 1997 Christie's sale catalogue.
[4] According to Judd Tully and Jo Ann Lewis, "National Gallery Buys Rare Homer," The Washington Post, 20 June 1997: C1, C4, the painting "had its first recorded gallery sale in 1918, when it sold for $350 at M. Knoedler & Co. in New York."
[5] He lent the painting to exhibitions at both the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Worcester Art Museum in 1944, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1950.
[6] They lent the painting to several exhibitions, the first in 1958.
[7] Full provenance taken from catalogue entry in Marc Simpson, Winslow Home Paintings of the Civil War, Exh. cat., The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988: 142-147; curator's acquisition proposal; 17 June 1997 letter from Stuart Feld (in NGA curatorial files); and sources referred to in previous notes.
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