WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
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WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Boy and Girl on a Swing

Details
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Boy and Girl on a Swing
watercolor and pencil on paper
8 ¼ x 12 in. (21 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1879.
Provenance
(Probably) Sale: Wm. A. Butters & Co., Chicago, 10 December 1879.
Aucelia Harriett Bentley Burtis, Chicago, (probably) acquired from the above.
By descent to the present owners.
Further details
The present work has been assigned record no. 829.5 in the Goodrich/Gerdts Record of Works by Winslow Homer.

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Lot Essay

Along with Boy and Girl at a Well, the present work and its counterpart mark an exciting rediscovery of Winslow Homer's watercolors. The current owner's great-great-grandmother, Aucelia Harriett Bentley Burtis, likely acquired these works at auction in 1879 in Chicago, and they have been passed down through the family since.

An archivist, the present owner removed the works from the wall to be safely stored, making copies of each to hang in her office. Following a colleague expressing surprise regarding Homer works hanging in the office, the present owner applied for Antiques Roadshow to further investigate. During filming in Arkansas, it was concluded that these works were, in fact, previously unlocated watercolors by the eminent American master.

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