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Life-Size Black Bass

Winslow Homer · 1904

Provenance

Ownership history

Charles Deering (1852-1927) and Mrs. Charles Deering (née Marion Denison Whipple; c. 1857-1943), Chicago, by 1932 [Bolton 1932]. By descent to their daughter, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886-1965), Chicago. By descent to her son, Brooks McCormick (1917-2006), Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Homer Centenary", July 16–August 16, 1936, as "Leaping Fish" [Chicago Daily Tribune, July 19, 1936].
Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, "Two Hundred Years of American Painting from Private Chicago Collections," June 25-September 2, 1983, cat. 22.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Winslow Homer Watercolors," March 2-May 11, 1986, pp. 232, 235, and 236, fig. 220, cat. by Helen Cooper; also traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., The Amon Carter Museum, June 6-July 27, 1986; and New Haven, Mass., Yale University Art Gallery, September 11-November 2, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light," February 16-May 11, 2008, pp. 194, 195 (ill.), 198, preface n. 40, cat. by Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm.

Literature

Theodore Bolton, “Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue,” The Fine Arts XVIII: 5 (April 1932), p. 54, as "Fish--Leaping Fish".
Eleanor Jewett, "Art Institute Is Presenting a Diversified Group of Exhibits," Chicago Daily Tribune, July 19, 1936, p. E10, as "Leaping Fish".
Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909, exh. cat. (Jacksonville, Fla.: The Cummer Gallery of Art, 1977), p. 34, cat. 36 (ill.).
Patricia Junker and Sarah Burns, Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum; San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2002), pp. 63, 86, 178-180, fig. 99.

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