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Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910

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1874

Oil on canvas

Overall: 12 × 21 in. (30.5 × 53.3 cm)

Frame: 24 × 32 1/2 in. (61 × 82.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: From the Estate of Tatiana Ruzicka (1915-1995). Presented by Edward Connery Lathem in memory of Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978).

P.997.36

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed on gummed label on frame, on reverse: RUDOLPH RUZICKA, P.O. BOX 376, HANOVER, N.H.

Course History

HIST 27, WGST 23, Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Leslie Butler, Spring 2012

ITAL 1, Introductory Italian I, Scott Millspaugh, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 12, 2021.

Focus On: Winslow Homer, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, October 9-December 5, 1999.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 28, 2000-May 8, 2007.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12, 2012 to present.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-December 1, 2010.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20, 1998-September 1, 1999.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 58, no. 37.

Provenance

Studio of the artist until about 1917; Charles Savage Homer, Jr., the artist's brother, who acquired the estate; Dr. and Mrs.(Maria H.B.) William S. Dennett, New York, by gift from their friend Charles Homer; Susan P. Hubbard, by bequest from her cousin, Maria H.B. Dennett, 1942; Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) from Susan P. Hubbard, May 1943; Tatiana Ruzicka (1915-1995) by bequest from her father 1978; Edward Connery Lathem by bequest from Tatiana Ruzicka in 1995 to distribute to the museum of this choice; presented by Mr. Lathem to the Hood Museum of Art as a promised gift, August, 1997; given to present collection, 2007.

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