Three Fisher Girls, Tynemouth, 1881

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.85 × 48.9 cm (11 3/4 × 19 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2012, Vol. IV.1, no. 1070

Accession Number

2012.89.4

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black watercolor: Winslow Homer 1881; upper center verso in pen and brown ink by unknown hand: 10; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #2319

Provenance

Mrs. F.S. Clark, Boston, by 1910; Isabella Clark Eaton (Mrs. John Marshall Eaton), Concord, MA, daughter of Mrs. F.S. Clark, by 1932; (Doll & Richards, Boston, 1938); John S. Ames, Boston, 1938; Mrs. John S. Ames, North Easton, MA, by bequest, 1959; one of her sons, by gift.[1] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2012; Bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2012

[1] Early provenance from Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gertds. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2012: IV.1, no. 1070, p. 72

Associated Names

Ames, John S.
Ames, John S.
Clark, F. S.
Eaton, Isabella Clark
Mellon, Rachel Lambert, Estate of

Exhibition History

1882: J. Eastman Chase, Boston, [watercolors], opened c. 6-c. 20 Feb. 1882

1941: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [watercolors], opened 19 Oct. 1941

Bibliography

2012: Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2012: IV.1, no. 1070, p. 72