Croquet Scene

1. William Sumner Appleton, Boston, from 1871 to 1903; by descent to William Sumner Appleton, Jr., Boston, from 1903. C.C. Childes, Boston, by 1941; sold through M. Knoedler & Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Macbeth Gallery, An Introduction to Homer, Dec. 15–Jan. 18, 1937, cat. 69.
• New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Life in America, cat. 217.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sport in American Art, Oct. 10–Dec. 10, 1944, cat. 56.
• Utica, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Paintings by Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, Dec. 1–Jan. 19, 1947, cat. 10.
• Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: Illustrator, Feb. 1951; Williamstown, Mass., Lawrence Art Museum, Williams College, cat. 30.
• Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, The American Scene 1710–1940, Apr. 17–May 6, 1956.
• Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Winslow Homer, A Retrospective Exhibition, Nov. 23, 1958–Jan. 4, 1959, cat. 9; New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jan. 29–Mar. 8, 1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mar–May 1959.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6679/junior-museum-america-and-the-artist"><em>Junior Museum: America and the Artist</em></a>, Aug. 1, 1975–July 9, 1978, no cat.
• New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Winslow Homer: The Croquet Game, Apr. 18–June 24, 1984; Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery, July 14–Sept. 16, 1984; Buffalo, New York, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Sept. 29–Nov. 25, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 8, 1984–Feb. 3, 1985; New York, National Academy of Design, Mar. 7–May 5, 1985, cat. 29.
• Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Winslow Homer</em>, Oct. 15, 1995–Jan. 28, 1996, cat.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 21–May 26, 1996; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 17–Sept. 22, 1996.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, Oct. 12, 2009–Jan. 24, 2010; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 28–May 23, 2010.

• M. Bruening, “Current Exhibitions,” Parnassus 9 (Jan. 1937), 32–34 (ill.).
• Magazine of Art 32 (June 3, 1939), 331 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report for the Year, 1941– 1942 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942), 7, ill. p. 139.
• J. Walker et al., Great American Painting from Smibert to Bellows, 1729–1924 (Oxford University Press, 1943), 59 (ill.).
• Art Digest 17 (Feb. 15, 1943), 16 (ill.).
• Frederick Sweet, “Croquet Scene by Winslow Homer,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 37 (Dec. 1943), 98–99 (ill.).
• Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (MacMillan Company, 1944), pl. 7.
• Lloyd Goodrich, “Young Winslow Homer,” Magazine of Art 37 (Feb. 1944), 58–63 (ill.).
• Henry–Russell Hitchcock, “American Painting at the Art Institute,” Art Institute Quarterly 45 (Sept. 15, 1951), ill. p. 47 and detail ill. on cover.
• Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer (George Braziller, 1959), pl. 6.
• Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago,1961), 218, ill. p. 378.
• Albert Ten Eyck, Winslow Homer, American Artists: His World and His Work (New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1961), 101 (ill.).

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