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Winslow Homer

The Mussel Gatherers

1875-1885

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Winslow Homer

The Mussel Gatherers

1875-1885

Physical Qualities Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 371 × 551 mm. (14 5/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer
Object Number 1956.226
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1956; Fanny and Alvin Thalheimer, 1956; purchased from M. Knoedler and Co., New York; Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Henschel, New York, 1941; James W. Elsworth, Chicago, before 1890; purchased from the artist
Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Paper Chase: Works on Paper by William Merritt Chase and his Contemporaries

Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 102.
Kent Roberts Greenfield, "The Museum: It's First Half Century," Annual I, BMA, 1966, illus. p. 33.
"A Tribute to Adelyn D. Breeskin," BMA News Quarterly, vo. XXV, no. 4, Summer 1962, illus. p. 23.
Cover, BMA News, June 1958.
"Object of the Week," The Baltimore Sun, Sunday magazine section, August 4, 1957.
Lloyd Goodrich, "Winslow Homer," NY, 1944, p. 88.
Theodore Bolton, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: Critique and Catalogue," The Fine Arts, XVIII (April 1932), p. 50.
Review of Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, "The Collector," NY, 1 September 1890, p. 146.
Athens, Elizabeth, Brandon Ruud, and Martha Tedeschi. Coming Away: Winslow Homer & England. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum; Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2017.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 55, ill.

Inscribed: by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: "Mussel Gatherers / N J D (illeg) / Mussel Gatherers / Winslow Homer"

Artist

Winslow Homer

1835–1909

American, 1836-1910
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