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Winslow Homer

Young Woman Sewing, 1876

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.77 × 20 cm (9 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, no. 607

Accession Number

2014.79.40

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in watercolor: HOMER

Provenance

Perk Van Lith, New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1919); (Scott & Fowles, New York, 1919); James Parmelee, Washington, DC, 1920; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Knoedler & Company, M.
Parmelee, James
Scott & Fowles

Exhibition History

1981: Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 62-63, repro

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 30-33, no. 16, repro

2001: Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001-2002, p. 113, no. 88

2002: The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002

2008: Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 2008, pp. 55, 57, fig. 26

2015: Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

2017: American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1959: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, 1959: 56.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 76, no. 478.

2002: Heartney, Eleanor, ed. A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2002, pp. 50-51.

2005: Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 2. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 429, no.607.

2017: Foster, Kathleen A. American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2017: 143, no. 110.