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Winslow Homer

Native hut at Nassau, 1885

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite with scraping and blotting on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.8 × 53.2 cm (14 1/2 × 20 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2012, Vol. IV.2, no. 1275

Accession Number

1994.59.20

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: nassau / native hut; in graphite by the artist: Native hut at Nassau / Winslow Homer; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: No. 1 Frame

Provenance

James W. Ellsworth, Chicago, by 1890; Lincoln Ellsworth, his son, probably 1925; Marie Louise Ulmer Ellsworth (Mrs. Lincoln Ellsworth), New York, by bequest, 1951; (Kennedy Galleries, 1965); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, c. 1972; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Ellsworth, James W.
Ellsworth, Lincoln
Ellsworth, Marie Louise Ulmer
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1885: Water Color Views by Winslow Homer, Reichard & Co., New York, Dec. 1885, no. 1 (as Native Cabin)

1886: Winslow Homer and Walter Gay, Doll & Richards, Boston, 19 Feb.-3 March 1886, no. 3 (as Native Cabin)

1890: [James W. Ellsworth Collection], Art Institute of Chicago, 5 May-Nov. 1890 (as Natives' Hut at Nassau, N. P.)

1995: Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 239-240, no. 147, repro.

1999: An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

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

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2016, no cat.

2022: Winslow Homer Crosscurrents, The Metropolitan Mueum of Art, New York, April 11-July 31, 2022.

Bibliography

1986: Cooper, Helen A., Winslow Homer Watercolors, New Haven, 1986: 132.

1991: Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 274.

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. 147.

2001: Unger, Miles, The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York, 2001: 127.127

2008: Tedeschi, Martha with Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, Art Institute of Chicago, 2008: 170-171, fig. 1.

2012: Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2012: IV.2, no. 1275, p. 331

2022: Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 11-July 31, 2022: p.95.