Two Girls Blackberrying

Details

WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Two Girls Blackberrying
signed with initials 'W.H-' (lower right)
pencil and gouache on paper
5 3⁄4 x 8 1⁄4 in. (14.6 x 20.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1879.

Provenance

Mrs. Louis Prang, Boston, Massachusetts.
Frances Tarbox, 1924.
Henry H. Pierce, Reading, Massachusetts, 1936.
Gilbert Brouillette, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1936.
William Macbeth, Inc., New York, 1938.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Metcalf, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1939.
Elizabeth Paine Card.
Diana Stainow Wilcox.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 through 1881, vol. III, New York, 2014, pp. 234-35, no. 813, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Winslow Homer spent several summers living and working on Houghton Farm in Mountainville, New York during the late 1870s where he gleaned artistic inspirtation from the pastoral scenery and rural inhabitants.

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