Young Woman Sewing, 1876

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

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.

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