Winslow Homer
A Retrospective Exhibition
November 23, 1958 – January 04, 1959
THIS EXHIBITION IS NO LONGER ON VIEW AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
Overview: 77 paintings, 106 watercolors, prints, and drawings, and a fireplace front of 12 ceramic tiles, 244 works in all, made this the largest exhibition ever of the work of Winslow Homer. It was also the Gallery's second one-person show devoted to a leading American painter. Most pieces went on to New York. The exhibition was coordinated by William P. Campbell.
Image: Winslow Homer, Dad's Coming!, 1873, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2001.97.1
Attendance: 49243
Catalog: Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958.
Other Venues:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 29–March 8, 1959
Related Artists
- Homer, Winslow
- American
- , 1836 - 1910