Mount Washington by Winslow Homer
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Mount Washington

Winslow Homer · 1869

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Williams and Everett, Boston, 1869. Shadrack H. Pearce, Boston, to 1890; by descent to his son William H. S. Pearce and daughter-in-law Miriam B. Pearce (born Badlam), Newton, MA, 1890 [correspondence from Miriam B. Pearce and William H. S. Pearce, copy in curatorial object file]; Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, by 1912; sold to J. W. Young, Young's Art Galleries, Chicago, 1912 [correspondence from J. Dudley Richards, March 13, 1912, original in curatorial object file]; sold to Marian Montgomery French (1849–1932, Mrs. Nathaniel French), Davenport, IA, 1912 [correspondence from W. H. Downes to Mrs. Nathaniel French, April 3, 1912, original in curatorial object file]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago and Miami, FL, by 1923; bequeathed to his daughters Barbara Deering Danielson (1888–1982, Mrs. Richard E. Danielson) and Marian Deering McCormick (1886–1965, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick), 1927; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Century Association, Nov. 6, 1869.
  • Boston, Williams and Everett, Dec. 1869.
  • Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Exhibition of Paintings Drawings, Aquarelles, and Works of Household Arts, Sept. 3–Oct. 4, 1873, cat. 153, as End of the Bridle Path, Mt. Washington.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Winslow Homer Memorial Exhibition, 1911, no cat.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oils and Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Oct. 3–Nov. 2, 1944.
  • Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: Illustrator, Feb. 1951, cat. 6; Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum of Art, March 1951.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6619/art-at-the-time-of-the-centennial"><em>Art at the Time of the Centennial</em></a>, June 19–Aug. 15, 1976, no cat.
  • Durham, NH, University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, The White Mountains: Place and Perceptions, Sept. 8–Oct. 29, 1980, no cat. no., p. 102, as Summit of Mount Washington; New–York Historical Society, Dec. 1–Jan. 30, 1981; Hanover, NH, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Mar. 6–Apr. 19, 1981 (New York and Hanover only).
  • Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Winslow Homer</em>, Oct. 15, 1995–Jan. 28, 1996, cat. 23; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 21–May 26, 1996; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 17–Sept. 22, 1996.
  • Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Image and Memory: Picturing Old New England, Apr. 2–Aug. 22, 1999.

Literature

Published references

  • "Fine Arts," (NY) Evening Post, Nov. 8, 1869.
  • "Art Matters," Boston Sunday Times, Dec. 12, 1869.
  • "Art Matters," Boston Sunday Times, Dec. 19, 1869.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 88 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
  • Pamela Jane Sachant, "Winslow Homer in the White Mountains, 1868–1870: Portraits of an Uncertain Nation," Historical New Hampshire 54 (Fall–Winter 1999): 142–59.
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume II, 1867 through 1876, edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts (Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2005)
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 2.

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