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  • Homer, Winslow,
     
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  • Figure group -- Female
     
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  • Cityscape -- England
     
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  • Architecture exterior -- Domestic
     
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  • Architecture exterior -- Domestic
     
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  • Occupation -- Domestic
     
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  • Animal -- Cat
     
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  • 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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