On the Beach - Two are Company, Three are None

published 1872

after Winslow Homer

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

Winslow Homer

Artist After, American, 1836 - 1910

The image shows a woman standing on a beach, looking towards the sea. She has long hair tucked under a hat and wears a voluminous dress with ruffles and long sleeves, cinched at the waist with a sash. She holds a dark parasol in her right hand. In the background, there is the ocean with gentle waves breaking at the shore. Two figures sit in a small boat on the sand, and seagulls fly above. Grasses frame the scene in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.91

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Foster 1936, no. 101

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1958

  • Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958-1959, no. 232 (not shown in New York).

1963

  • American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 107.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q65070002

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