Inscription
lower left: WINSLOW HOMER; lower center left, being painted on the building by the child: W H
Provenance
John Pomeroy Townsend [1832-1898], New York. (Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York); purchased January 1960 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
Exhibition History
- 1874
- Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1874, no. 82.
- 1960
- Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1960.
- 1968
- American Art from Alumni Collections, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1968, no. 103, repro.
- 1986
- Loan to display with permanent collection during the exhibition "Winslow Homer Watercolors," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986.
Bibliography
- 1911
- Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York, 1911: 77, 277.
- 1944
- Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer. New York, 1944: 49-50.
- 1995
- Cikovsky, Jr., Nicolai, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Washington, D.C., and New Haven, 1995: 64, fig. 39.
- 2014
- Kelly, Franklin. "A Lasting Legacy: The Completion of an Unparalleled Gift." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 51 (Fall 2014): 2-5, repro.
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