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After the Hurricane, Bahamas
Winslow Homer · 1899
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist to his brother, Charles S. Homer, Jr. (1834–1917), New York, by 1910 [according to correspondence from Abigail Booth Gerdts to the Art Institute, February 10, 2007]. Charles W. Gould (1849–1931), New York, by 1915 [Brooklyn exh. cat. 1915]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, November 11, 1915 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York Watercolor Club, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, November 22–December 14, 1902, cat. 9.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition, January 19–February 28, 1903, cat. 612.
- New York, The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, "Water Colors by Winslow Homer," October 16–November 7, 1915, p. 10, cat. 50.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Twenty Water Colors by Winslow Homer, Martin Ryerson Collection," January 5–June 16, 1916, no cat.
- Springfield Art Association, December 2, 1916.
- Pittsburgh, Pa., Carnegie Institute, "Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent: An Exhibition of Water Colors," November 1–27, 1917, cat. 17; also traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 30–December 31, 1917, the Toledo Museum of Art, January 1918, the Detroit Museum of Art, February 2–28, 1918, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 1918, the Milwaukee Art Institute, April 1918, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, May 5–26, 1918, and the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, June 6–July 7, 1918.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Lent by Martin A. Ryerson," October 1–26, 1920, no cat.
- Muskegon, Mich., Hackley Art Gallery, "Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer, Lent by Martin Ryerson," May 9¬June 20, 1921, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Second International Water Color Exhibition," April 15–May 21, 1922, p. 20, cat. 210.
- Paris, Hotel de la Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux Arts, "Exposition d'Art Americain," May 18–June 25, 1923, pp. 39–40, cat. 14 (ill.).
- Omaha, Neb., Omaha Society of Fine Arts, December 26, 1924–February 3, 1925, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer from the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson," April 1926, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- “Knoedler Firm Buys 21 Winslow Homers,” New York Herald (November 19, 1915).
- “Notes,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 10: 2 (February 1916), p. 143.
- André Dezarrois, “Une Exposition d’Art Américain: Winslow Homer, John Sargent, Paul Manship,” La Revue de l’Art 44 (July–August 1923), p. 145 (ill.)
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), p. 164, no. 2379.
- Parnassus 2, 5 (May 1930), p. 4 (ill.).
- Theodore Bolton, “Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue,” The Fine Arts 18: 5 (April 1932), p. 54.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Paintings of Martin A. Ryerson,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27: 1 (January 1933), p. 14 (ill.).
- A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 32 (ill.).
- Forbes Watson, Winslow Homer (New York, 1942), p. 42 (ill.).
- Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (New York, 1944), p. 161, pl. 51.
- Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (New York, 1959), p. 29, pl. 83.
- Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Winslow Homer, American Artist: His World and His Work (New York, 1961), p. 164 (ill.).
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