National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Red School House
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Overview

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Inscription

lower right: HOMER / 1873; upper right, scratched into paint and then overpainted: Homer 1873

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Provenance

Nellie C.M. Taylor [Mrs. George H. Taylor], Boston, in 1919.[1] (E. & A. Milch, Inc., New York); sold 1919 to Gilbert E. Rubens [1884-1960], New York; (E. & A. Milch, Inc., New York); sold 22 November 1935 to Thomas Edward Hanley [1895-1969], Bradford, Pennsylvania;[2] by inheritance to his wife, Tullah Innes Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania;[3] (E. V. Thaw & Co., New York); sold 14 August 1970 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] According to Lloyd Goodrich's provenance, as supplied by Abigail Booth Gerdts, 16 September 1991 (in NGA curatorial files), "Mrs. Taylor is reported to have said in 1919, that her father acquired this painting directly from Homer."

[2] The painting was exhibited in Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley at the Denver Art Museum from 22 February to 30 April 1968. Dr. Hanley died 9 April 1969, leaving his estate to his wife, Tullah Innes Hanley.

[3] "Hanley Leaves Art Works to Colleges and Museum," (The New York Times, 27 April 1969) states "T. Edward Hanley, the oil heir, left the bulk of his estate, valued at up to $15 million, to his wife, Tullah Innes Hanley." The collection presumably was dispersed according to his expressed wishes, but that dispersal evidently did not include The Red Schoolhouse. The painting was exhibited by Mrs. Hanley in the exhibition Works from the Hanley Collection at Canisius College in Buffalo from 23 November to 23 December 1969.

Exhibition History

1947
A Loan Exhibition of Winslow Homer, Wildenstein & Company, New York, 1947, no. 16.
1961
Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection, Wildenstein & Company, New York, 1961, no. 20.
1962
T. Edward Hanley Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962, no cat.
1967
Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Gallery of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, repro. 17, 58.
1967
Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, 1967, no. 57.
1968
Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, The Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1968, repro. 17, 58.
1968
Works from the Hanley Collection, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, 1968, no. 17.
1969
Works from the Hanley Collection, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, 1969, no. 34.
1970
American 19th Century Paintings, Bernard Dannenberg Galleries, New York, 1970, no cat.
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist
2005
Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1979
Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York, 1979: 94.
1986
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. "Winslow Homer's School Time: 'A Picture Thoroughly National." In John Wilmerding, ed. Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon, Collector and Benefactor. Washington, D.C., 1986: 48, 56, repro. 52.
1990
Carren, Rachel Ann. "From Reality to Symbol: Images of Children in the Art of Winslow Homer." 2 vols. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1990: 1:52.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 203, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 305-309, color repro.
2005
Goodrich, Lloyd, edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2005: 2:no. 424, repro.

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