On the Beach - Two are Company, Three are None

published 1872

American 19th Century

Artist

Winslow Homer

Artist After, American, 1836 - 1910

after Winslow Homer

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving on newsprint

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.3 x 35.2 cm (9 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.2 x 40.1 cm (11 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.31.111

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 101

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 86-87, no. 34.

Bibliography

1936

  • Foster, Allen Evarts. "A check list of illustrations by Winslow Homer in 'Harper's Weekly' and other periodicals." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 40 (1936): 842-852. Separately published New York: New York Public Library, 1936.

1969

  • Gelman 1969, no.233.

1977

  • Kelsey 1977, no.218.

1995

  • Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996: no. 34.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: WH; lower center: ON THE BEACH-TWO ARE COMPANY, THREE ARE NONE.-Drawn by Winslow Homer.-[See Poem on Page 642.]

Wikidata ID

Q74072854

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