Two Scouts, 1887

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.7 × 35.3 cm (19 15/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Nancy Voorhees, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2012, Vol. IV.2, no. 1397

Accession Number

1992.6.1

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black watercolor: Winslow Homer NA.

Provenance

James J. Higginson, New York, 1887; Dorothy Higginson Weekes (Mrs. Arthur D. Weekes), Oyster Bay, New York, his daughter, by 1941; James Higginson Weekes, Oyster Bay, New York, and Kilbridge, Ireland, her son, by 1953; (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, 15 June 1977, sale 209, no. 791); Nancy Voorhees, Woodbridge, VA; gift to NGA 1992.

Associated Names

Higginson, James Jackson
Voorhees, Nancy, Ms.
Weekes, Dorothy Higginson
Weekes, James Higginson

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 59.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 138-139, repro.

1997: Winslow Homer and the Civil War: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2005: Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

2012: Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2012: IV.2, no. 1397, p. 462-463