Live Auction 17661American Art
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Lot 86 The Ron and Diane Disney Miller Collection

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Schooners in Gloucester Harbor

Closed20 November 2019

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Schooners in Gloucester Harbor
signed 'Winslow Homer N.A.' (lower right)
gouache and pencil on paper
9 ¾ x 14 in. (24.8 x 35.6 cm)
Executed in 1880.

Jacob Otis Wardwell, Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Sheldon E. Wardwell, Brookline, Massachusetts, son of the above, by descent, 1940.
Charles D. Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1941.
Donald B. Wilson, Medford, Massachusetts, 1941.
Caroline Robie, Hill, New Hampshire, wife of the above, by descent, by 1962.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1963.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts, 1963.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1987.
Meckler Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1988.

Specialist note


Regarding the present work, Helen Cooper writes that Homer "using graphite on tan paper...sketched three boys lounging on the rocks, watching the schooners pass; then, taking a brush loaded with white gouache, his hand moved across the sheet to illuminate the forms and give life to the scene. Henry James would later say that Homer's great merit was that 'he naturally sees everything at one with its envelope of light and air.'" ("First Watercolors," Winslow Homer Watercolors, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, Connecticut, 1986, p. 20)