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Homer, Winslow,
Figure group -- Female
Cityscape -- England
Architecture exterior -- Domestic
Architecture exterior -- Domestic
Occupation -- Domestic
Animal -- Cat
Painting
Sparrow Hall, (painting).
Artist:
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter.
Title:
Sparrow Hall, (painting).
Dates:
ca. 1881-1882.
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
15 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (39.4 x 56.5 cm)
Inscription:
unsigned
Description:
Three women are standing in the doorway of a stone house, one holding a basket and two knitting. Below them, a girl and child sit on the stairs and play with a cat. Another woman is seated on a barrel at left.
Subject:
Figure group -- Female
Cityscape -- England -- Cullercoats
Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House
Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Sparrow Hall
Occupation -- Domestic -- Sewing
Animal -- Cat
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Homer, Winslow,
Homer, Charles S., 1910.
Homer, Charles Savage, Mrs., 1917-1937.
Homer, Arthur P. & Charles L.,
Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York 1943.
Private collection,
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1976.
Acquired 1976.
Wilmerding, John,
Exhibitions:
Carnegie Institute 1907 International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1907, no. 221.
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, no. 2517.
References:
"Watercolors by Winslow Homer: the color of light," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, fig. 11, pg. 202.
Kelly, Franklin, "American masters from Bingham to Eakins: the John Wilmerding collection," Washington, D.C." National Gallery of Art, 2004, cat. 18.
Illustration:
"Watercolors by Winslow Homer: the color of light," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, fig. 11, pg. 202.
Kelly, Franklin, "American masters from Bingham to Eakins: the John Wilmerding collection," Washington, D.C." National Gallery of Art, 2004, pg. 80.
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 8A030006
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