Palm Trees, Red, 1890

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19.7 × 45.7 cm (7 3/4 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Julia B. Engel

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2014, Vol. V, no. 1751

Accession Number

1984.58.5

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 17 1/2 x 7 3/8 [not deciphered]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: a23658-1/ 22 1/2 x 12 5/8

Provenance

Charles S. Homer, Jr., nephew of the artist, by bequest, Prouts Neck, 1910; Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., by bequest, 1917; Arthur P. and Charles L. Homer, by bequest, 1937; (Milch Galleries, Inc., New York, 1956); Solton Engel, New York, 1956; Julia Engel, wife by bequest, New York, gift to NGA, 1984

Associated Names

Engel, Solton, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1936: Century Loan Exhibition as a Memorial to Winslow Homer, Prouts Neck Association, Prouts Neck, Maine, 1936.

1953: Behn-Moore Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sept.-Oct. 1953

1985: Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1995: Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996 (not in catalogue)

1996: An Amazing Bit of Sleight of Hand: Winslow Homer's Watercolor Techniques, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 1996, no cat.

Bibliography

1936: Prouts Neck Association. Century Loan Exhibiton as a Memorial to Winslow Homer. Prouts Neck, Maine : [Prouts Neck Association], 1936.

2014: Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2014: V, no. 1751, p. 356-357.