The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
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