Boy Fishing
Artist:
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836 - 1910)
Place made:United States
Date: 1892
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
14 5/8 x 21 in. (37.1 x 53.3 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and Friends of the San Antonio Museum Association
Object number: 86.130
Inscribed: Signed and dated, in ink, lower left, "Winslow Homer 1892" and lower right, "Homer 1892"
Provenance: sold by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) to Col. George G. Briggs, 1896; with Anthony T. Ladd, M.D., Charleston, SC, by 1971-1986; sold by Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
D. Tatham, "Trapper, Hunter, and Woodsman: Winslow Homer's Adirondack Figures," American Art Journal 22 (1990), 59-60, fig. 18.
N. Cikovsky, Jr., and F. Kelly, Winslow Homer (National Gallery of Art, 1995), 260-261, no. 159.
P. Junker and S. Burns, Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler (Amon Carter Museum and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2002), 115 and cover image.
L. Reitzes, S. Street, and G. D. Scott, III, A National Image: The American Painting and Sculpture Collection in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio Museum of Art, 2003), 124-125, no. 41.
K. A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2016), 311-312, fig. 262.
Label Text
An avid fisherman as well as a virtuoso watercolorist, in the late 1880s Winslow Homer joined the North Woods Club, a private hunting preserve on Mink Pond in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The watercolors he painted there created an immediate sensation. In Boy Fishing, Homer captures both the quiet stillness of the lake and woods and the quick, practiced movements of the youth as he nets a trout. (J. Powers, 2021)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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