The Wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast Up by the Sea
Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910
1873
Wood engraving on wove paper
Image: 9 3/16 × 13 7/8 in. (23.4 × 35.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (25.7 × 40.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Carl Golub
PR.993.58.9
Publisher
Harper's Weekly
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, lower center: THE WRECK OF THE "ATLANTIC" - CAST UP BY THE SEA. - DRAWN BY WINSLOW HOMER.-[SEE PAGE 342.]
Label
The drowned young woman lying on the shore was one of 535 passengers who perished during the ill-fated 1873 crossing of the S.S. Atlantic ocean liner, which crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia during a raging storm. In Homer’s image, a local fisherman modestly looks downward before moving the woman’s corpse. Her body appears peaceful, while her still-tight clasp of a torn rope suggests her fortitude when she faced her impending death.
From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20- July 24, 2022.
Provenance
Carl Golub; given to present collecton,1993.
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