The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Winslow Homer

On the Beach at Marshfield

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Winslow Homer

1836 - 1910

On the Beach at Marshfield



oil on canvas

13⅛ x 21⅝ in. (33.3 x 54.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1872. 

Charles S. Homer, Jr. (acquired by bequest in 1910)

Arthur B. Homer (acquired by descent in 1911)

[with] William Macbeth, Inc., New York

R.L. Skolfield (acquired in 1933)

[with] William Macbeth, Inc., New York

Stephen C. Clark, New York (acquired in 1934)

[with] Kleeman Gallery, New York (acquired in 1941)

Dr. & Mrs. Chester J. Roberts, Pelham Manor, New York (acquired in 1941)

Dr. Allan E. Robertson, Riverside, Connecticut (acquired by 1958)

[with] Davis & Langdale Co., New York

Private Collection (acquired in 1980)

[with] Davis & Langdale Co., New York

Wolf Family Collection No. 0931 (acquired from the above on April 12, 1988)

William H. Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, 1911, no. 72, pp. xvii, 176-77, illustrated

David Tatham, Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press, Syracuse, New York, 2003, p. 176

Lloyd Goodrich & Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1867-1876, vol. II, New York, 2005, no. 394, p. 167, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art & Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting, 2018, pl. 20, p. 25, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Museum, Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880, 2019, fig. 22, p. 52, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer Centenary Exhibition, 1936-37, no. 5, p. 21

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art & Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College, Winslow Homer: Illustrator 1860-1875, 1951, no. 17, p. 21, illustrated

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1958-59, no. 25, p. 118

Norfolk, Virginia, Mariners' Museum & Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Homer and the Sea, 1964, no. 3, n.p. 

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer, 1995-96, no. 32, p. 86, illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-21