Girl and Laurel, 1879

  • Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 22 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches (57.5 × 40 cm)
  • 28 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 1 7/8 inches (71.8 × 54 × 4.8 cm)

Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

40.56

On View

  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

Signed and dated, lower left corner: Homer | 1879

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Savage Homer, Jr. Mr. Arthur Homer. Macbeth Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

19440-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 20, 1 (October 1940). Winslow Homer. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1958, no. 43. “Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (May 20, 1979): p. 29 (ill.). “Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News (April 10, 1983): p. 18 (ill.). Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, no. 68 (ill.).

Winslow Homer, Girl and Laurel, 1879, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 40.56.