Winslow Homer
The Cellist
1866
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 28 3/4 × 22 5/8 × 3 in. (73 × 57.5 × 7.6 cm.)
Unframed: 18 7/8 × 12 3/4 in. (47.9 × 32.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Given in Memory of Joseph Katz by his Children
Object Number
1964.52.2
-David Park Curry, American Wing Reinstallation 2014
The artist; to Charles DeKay, New York; to his daughter, Mrs. John Wheelock, ca. 1883; M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1939; Kleeman Galleries, New York, by 1942; Joseph Katz, Baltimore, 1944; Victor Spark, New York, ca. 1960
NAD, New York, 1868, no. 420 (probably the painting listed as The Studio and for sale)
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3-June 2, 1940, no. 63 (as Cello Player, 1867, lent by M. Knoedler and Company, New York), for checklist see Art News, May 4, 1940
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Music in Art, Aug. 11-Sept. 6, 1942, no. 36 (lent by Kleeman Galleries, New York)
The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, Oct. 11-Dec. 1, 1963, p. 89, no. 126, ill. p. 44 (lent by Victor Spark)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005
The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005
The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Age of Impressionism and Objective Realism, May 3-June 2, 1940, no. 63 (as Cello Player, 1867, lent by M. Knoedler and Company, New York), for checklist see Art News, May 4, 1940
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Music in Art, Aug. 11-Sept. 6, 1942, no. 36 (lent by Kleeman Galleries, New York)
The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, Oct. 11-Dec. 1, 1963, p. 89, no. 126, ill. p. 44 (lent by Victor Spark)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005
The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005
The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 82-83, ill. p. 82
Inscribed: lower right: Paris-69/Winslow Homer
