Four Boys on a Beach

1873

Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with watercolor and gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 14.1 × 34 cm (5 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.19.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. II, no. 456

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. Beard, c. 1895; Bessie W. Beard, Cambridge, MA, his daughter, nd; (William Macbeth, Inc., 1936); John Davis Hatch, New York, 1936; gift to NGA, 1979.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1936

  • An Introduction to Homer, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 15 Dec. 1936-7 March 1937, no. 14

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1990

  • Winslow Homer in Gloucester, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 20 Oct.-30 Dec. 1990, no. 2

1995

  • Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 141, no. 74.

2005

  • Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 3 July 2005-26 Feb. 2006, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

2005

  • Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 2. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 234, no. 456.

2008

  • Tedeschi, Martha with Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, Art Institute of Chicago, 2008: 80, fig. 5.

Inscriptions

lower right in black crayon: W H

Wikidata ID

Q64640081

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