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Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
Drowning Figures (Study for Undertow)
c. 1886

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, Drowning Figures (Study for Undertow), c. 1886, graphite, with chalk, on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1481.5 recto
Medium
graphite, with chalk, on beige wove paper
Dimensions
5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (14.6 x 22.6 cm)
Object Number
1955.1481.5 recto
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Sixteen: Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1961. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. Polley, Robert L., ed. Great Art Treasures in America's Smaller Museums. Text by Harold E. Haydon. New York: Putnam's, 1967. Longstreet, Stephen. The Drawings of Winslow Homer. Master Draughtsman series, vol. 45. Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing, 1970. Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Winslow Ames.. The Mastery of Drawing. 2 vol. (Eng. ed. of Joseph Meder, Die Handzeichnung/Ihre Technik und Entwicklung).. New York: Abaris Books.. 1978.. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Murphy, Alexandra. Winslow Homer in the Clark Collection. Exhibition catalogue. With contributions by Rafael Fernandez and Jennifer Gordon. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1986. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Charles Moffett, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995. Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Lawrence, James. "Exhibition Review: Winslow Homer. Williamstown." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1233 (December 2005): 84850.

Provenance

The artist, given to Adams, 1900; Edward D. Adams, New York (1900–1925, given to Clark, with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, as agent); Sterling and Francine Clark (1925–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.