- Winslow Homer 1836-1910
- Sponge Fishermen, Bahamas
- Date unknown
- Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
- 11 x 20 1/8 in. (27.9 x 51.1 cm.)
- Signed Homer lower right
- This work will be included in the forthcoming Spanierman Gallery/CUNY/Goodrich/Whitney catalogue raisonné of the works of Winslow Homer
- SOLD
New York
Bridgehampton
Los Angeles
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Ex-collection
Doll & Richards, Boston Massachusetts, 1886.
Martin Brimmer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886.
Mrs. Martin Brimmer, Boston, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth, Geneseo, New York, by bequest from the above, 1907.
William P. Wadsworth, Geneseo, New York, son of the above, by descent
Acquired by the present owner in 1991
Exhibitions
New York, Reichard & Co., Water-Color Views by Winslow Homer, December 1885, no. 23 (as Sponge)
Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Exhibition of Paintings by Walter Gay and Water Color Drawings by Winslow Homer, N.A., February-March 1886, no. 15 (as Sponge)
Boston, Massachusetts, Saint Botolph Club, Loan Collection of Watercolors, December 1891, no. 84 (as Sponge Fisherman, Jamaica)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1958-January 1959, no. 125, illustrated (This exhibition also traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, October-December 1963, no. 130
Literature
H. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, Washington, D.C., 1986, no. 121, illustrated