Four Boys on a Beach, 1873

Not on View

Medium

graphite with watercolor and gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 14.1 × 34 cm (5 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

John Davis Hatch Collection, Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Goodrich/Gerdts 2005, Vol. II, no. 456

Accession Number

1979.19.1

Artists / Makers

Winslow Homer (artist) American, 1836 - 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black crayon: W H

Provenance

Mr. Beard, c. 1895; Bessie W. Beard, Cambridge, MA, his daughter, nd; (William Macbeth, Inc., 1936); John Davis Hatch, New York, 1936; gift to NGA, 1979.

Associated Names

Beard
Beard, Bessie W.
Hatch, John Davis, Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1936: An Introduction to Homer, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 15 Dec. 1936-7 March 1937, no. 14

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1990: Winslow Homer in Gloucester, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 20 Oct.-30 Dec. 1990, no. 2

1995: Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996, 141, no. 74.

2005: Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 3 July 2005-26 Feb. 2006, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

2005: Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. 2. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005, p. 234, no. 456.

2008: Tedeschi, Martha with Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, Art Institute of Chicago, 2008: 80, fig. 5.