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Autumn
Winslow Homer1877
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication _American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part _I, pages 318-322, which is available as a free PDF at <u>https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf</u>
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Details
- Title: Autumn
- Creator: Winslow Homer
- Date Created: 1877
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 97.1 x 58.9 cm (38 1/4 x 23 3/16 in.) framed: 126.4 x 91.1 x 7.9 cm (49 3/4 x 35 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Sale, Leavitt Art Rooms, New York, 29-30 January 1878, 2nd day, no. 95). (Doll & Richards, Boston, June 1878); sold 1 July 1878 to Stephen Westcott Nickerson, Narraganset Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island.[1] Charles T. Barney [1851-1907], New York.[2] Edward C.J. Runge [1847-1916], New York; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 9 January 1902, no. 71); purchased by E.A. Rorke. M.J. Hegarty, White Plains, New York, c. 1911; consigned 30 July 1936 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[3] sold 10 May 1943 to Dr. Philip G. Stevens, New Haven, Connecticut,[4] until at least 1944.[5] H. B. Yotnakparian. Polly M. Leavitt, Bangor, Maine. Theodore Leavitt, New York, until at least 1950.[6] (Robert Carlen Galleries, Philadelphia); probably sold 1951 to Irving H. Vogel, Philadelphia.[7] (Wildenstein & Co., New York), by 1954 until 1957.[8] Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shaye, Detroit, 1958 until at least May 1962.[9] (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York); sold December 1964 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[10] gift 1985 to NGA. [1] Doll & Richards records, box 53, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C. [2] J. Eastman Chase, "Some Recollections of Winslow Homer," _Harper's Weekly_ 54 (22 October 1910): 13. [3] Per 1 November 1995 letter from Melissa De Medeiros, Librarian at M. Knoedler (in NGA curatorial files). [4] See note 3. [5] Identified in _Winslow Homer_ (Exh. cat. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1944, no. 13); the exhibition ran from 16 November to 17 December 1944. [6] Identified in _Dramatic Choices: The Theater Collects_ (Exh. cat. Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1950: no. 31); the exhibition ran from 4 November to 1 December 1950. [7] This provenance was "unconfirmed, but probable" according to a letter of 16 September 1991 from Abigail Booth Gerdts (in NGA curatorial files). No record of this sale can be found in the Robert Carlen Galleries Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. [8] "Wildenstein & Co. advertisement," _Arts Magazine_ 31 (September 1957): 4. [9] "American Paintings and Drawings from Michigan Collections," Detroit Institute of Arts, 10 April-6 May 1962. [10] Invoice dated 29 December 1964 from Marlborough-Gerson to Paul Mellon (in NGA curatorial files).
- Medium: oil on canvas
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