Two Scouts, 1865

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 34.1 × 25.2 cm (13 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. I, no. 267

Accession Number

1996.121.18

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in graphite: 15; lower left in graphite: Two of Sheridan's Scouts- / Sketched near Hatcher's run / in front of Petersburg; lower right in graphite: Homer / March 28th / 1865; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: I

Provenance

Major Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, New York, by gift of Homer, 1904; Edmund Robbins Zalinski, his son, by bequest, 1909; Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski II, his son, Philadelphia, by gift, 1955; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Zalinski, Edmund
Zalinski, Edmund Louis Gray Major
Zalinski, Edward Robbins

Exhibition History

1997: Winslow Homer and the Civil War: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 17 July-21 Sept. 1997.

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

Bibliography

2005: Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 1. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 330, no. 267.