Winslow Homer
34 x 49.2 cm
Framed dimensions: 24 1/2 x 30 in
dated and dedicated lower right: 1882 / To Mrs. Chapman with complts of the artist
Homer has here placed the relaxed young woman seen in the drawing, Shepherdess (1978) into a segment of the landscape seen in the watercolor, Autumn Mountainville, New York (1978).
"Helen Cooper identified the Mrs. Chapman of this inscription as Mrs. William Chapman, wife of the owner of the Huddleston Arms Hotel in Cullercoats. As Homer was making a gift of this watercolor--derived from a work of 1878, but executed in 1880- in 1882, then it may be presumed he had brought it with him to England in 1881" (A. Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. Ill, New York, 2008, p. 272).
Provenance
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Chapman Family, Cullercoats, England
Sale: Christie's New York, 24 April 1981, lot 75
[Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York]
Sale: Christie's New York, 26 May 1993, lot 53
Private Collection, Switzerland
Exhibitions
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Lang Art Gallery, 1926.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue: Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer
Watercolors, 1986-87, referenced p. 87 [Traveled: Forth Worth, Anon Carter Museum; New
Haven, Yale University Art Gallery].
L. Goodrich and A. Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. Ill, New York,
2008, no. 871, illustrated in black and white p. 272.
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