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Homer, Winslow,
Waterscape -- Sea
Figure group
State of Being -- Death
Painting
Undertow, (painting).
Artist:
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter.
Title:
Undertow, (painting).
Dates:
1886.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
29 13/16 x 47 5/8 in. (75.7 x 121 cm).
Inscription:
(Lower right:) Winslow Homer/1886 signed
Description:
Waterscape of rolling waves with two male figures rescuing two female bathers clinging to one another.
Subject:
Waterscape -- Sea
Figure group
State of Being -- Death -- Drowning
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, P. O. Box 8, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267 Accession Number: 4
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Adams, Edward D., 1889.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York 1924.
Clark, Robert Sterling,
References:
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 136.
Coll.checklist, 1972.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Life & Work of Winslow Homer", N.y.: Abrams, 1979.
Conrads, Margaret C., "American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1990, pg. 78.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 231.
Conrads, Margaret C., "American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1990, pg. 79.
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 23480011
Copy/Holding information
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
23480011
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