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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Lot 14 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON IV

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Cow in Pasture

Closed21 May 2015

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Cow in Pasture
signed and dated 'Homer 1878' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
6 ½ x 11 1/8 in. (16.5 x 28.3 cm.)

Lawson Valentine, New York, circa 1879.
Lucy Houghton Valentine, wife of the above, 1891.
Almira Valentine Pulsifer, daughter of the above, 1911.
Lawson Valentine Pulsifer, Mountainville, New York, son of the above.
Alice Pulsifer Doyle, daughter of the above, gift from the above, by 1949.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 April 1980, lot 46.
Private collection.
Christie's, New York, 3 June 1983, lot 54a.
Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas, acquired from the above.
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1987.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 77.

Specialist note

The present work was painted during Winslow Homer's extended stay in the summer and fall of 1878 at Houghton Farm, a working homestead in Mountainville, New York, owned by Homer's first and most important patron, Lawson Valentine.