About the Artwork
Watering Plants
1874
Winslow Homer
1836-1910
American
Unknown
Brush and grey wash and white gouache over pencil on grey wove paper
Sheet: 14 × 9 1/4 inches (35.6 × 23.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
50.94
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Markings
Signed and dated, in white gouache, lower right: Homer 74
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 1 [circled]
Provenance
Mrs. Arthur Homer (Prout's Neck, Main, USA). 1950-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Century Loan Exhibition in Winslow Homer's Studio. Exh. cat., Winslow Homer Studio. Prout's Neck, 1936, no. 4.
Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Graphics by Winslow Homer. Exh. cat., University of Arizona Art Gallery. Tucson, 1963, cat. 44, p. 82 (ill. p. 24).
Bulletin of the DIA 31, no. 1 (1951-1952): pp. 6-8 (ill.).
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Winslow Homer, Watering Plants, 1874, brush and grey wash and white gouache over pencil on grey wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 50.94.
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