Four Fishwives on the Beach, 1881

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.64 × 58.42 cm (16 × 23 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2012, Vol. IV.1, no. 1059

Accession Number

2014.18.23

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in red watercolor: W.H. 1881; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 6; lower left verso in graphite by unkown hand: 17 1/2 x 24 1/2 [not deciphered] / 17 x 19 / 796 + 797

Provenance

Mrs. Charles Homer, Jr. nd; Caroline Cook Lombard (Mrs. Warren Plimpton Lombard), by gift, nd; Ruth W. Emmons Edmands (Mrs. Isaac R. Edmands), Edgartown, MA, Mrs. Lombard's niece, by bequest, 1939; (Old Print Shop, 1959); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; Bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Edmands, Ruth W. Emmons
Homer, Jr., Charles Savage, Mrs.
Lombard, Caroline Cook
Lombard, Warren Plimpton
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

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

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2016.

Bibliography

2012: Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2012: IV.1, no. 1059, p 61-62