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Boy with a Stick
Details
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Boy with a Stick
signed and dated 'Homer/'79' (lower right)—signed again with initials 'WH' (on the stump at center)
pencil and gouache on paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1879.
Boy with a Stick
signed and dated 'Homer/'79' (lower right)—signed again with initials 'WH' (on the stump at center)
pencil and gouache on paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1879.
Provenance
Horace D. Chapin, Boston, Massachusetts.
Margaret Chapin Osgood, Boston, Massachusetts, sister of the above, circa 1936.
By descent to the present owner, 1957.
Margaret Chapin Osgood, Boston, Massachusetts, sister of the above, circa 1936.
By descent to the present owner, 1957.
Literature
W.H. Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, New York, 1911, p. 290.
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 through 1881, vol. III, New York, 2014, p. 226, no. 798, illustrated.
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 through 1881, vol. III, New York, 2014, p. 226, no. 798, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, February 8-March 8, 1911.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, on extended loan.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, on extended loan.
Brought to you by
Tylee Abbott
Vice President, Head of American Art