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Almira Houghton Valentine and Mary Chamberlain Valentine, (painting). Artist:  Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter. Title:  Almira Houghton Valentine and Mary Chamberlain Valentine, (painting). Dates:  1877. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  22 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) HOMER 1877 signed Description:  Double portrait of the Valentine sisters, Mary, age fifteen, and Almira, age twenty-three, seated on a bench in an interior. Almira, holding an artist's sketchbook in one hand and a pencil or paint brush in the other, works away while her younger sister seated behind her looks over her shoulder. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings Portrait female -- Valentine, Almira Houghton -- Full length Portrait female -- Valentine, Mary Chamberlain -- Full length Architecture interior -- Domestic Occupation -- Art Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1989.60 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Valentine, Lawson & Lucy Houghton, Mountainville, New York 1877. Pulsifer, Nathan Trowbridge, Mrs. (Almira Houghton Valentine), Pulsifer, Harold Trowbridge, until 1948. Pulsifer, Harold Trowbridge, Mrs., 1948. On loan to Colby College, Waterville, Maine Doyle, Alice Pulsifer, West Hartford, Connecticut 1989. Gift of Lawson Valentine Foundation, 1989. References:  "Inaugural Exhibition of the Colby College Art Collection including gifts acquired through the Friends of Art at Colby," Waterville, Maine, 1959. "Winslow Homer in New York State," Mountainville, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center, 1963. Colby College, 1988. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 471. Illustration:  Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 276. 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 18830020   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 18830020 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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