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Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, (painting). Artist:  Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter. Title:  Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, (painting). Dates:  1901. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  30 1/2 x 50 1/2 in. (77.8 x 128.3 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) W. HOMER signed Description:  View of the cannon parapet of Morro Castle, the late sixteenth-century fort built by the Spanish at the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The old watchtower is on the left and the cannons, still aimed out at the harbor, are lined up on the right. The moon and a beam of light from the harbor searchlight are visible against the sky. Subject:  Waterscape -- Harbor Landscape -- Cuba -- Santiago Architecture exterior -- Military -- Fort Architecture exterior -- Castle -- Morro Castle Architecture exterior -- Detail -- Tower Object -- Weapon -- Cannon Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 06.1282 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of M. Knoedler and Company, New York, New York Jan. 1902-Jan. 31, 1902. Hearn, George A., New York, New York 1902-1906. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hendricks, Gordon, "The Life and Work of Winslow Homer," New York: Abrams, 1979. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 490. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 232. "Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 168. Illustration:  Image on file. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 493. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 384. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120456   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120456 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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