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Winslow Homer
American, 1836–1910
An October Day
1889

Image Caption

Winslow Homer, An October Day, 1889, watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.770
Medium
watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
14 1/16 x 19 3/4 in. (35.7 x 50.2 cm) Frame: 22 1/2 x 28 3/8 in. (57.2 x 72.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.770
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

Select Bibliography

"Picture Exhibitions and Sales." The Art Amateur 22, no. 5 (April 1890): 93. Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911. Bolton, Theodore. "Watercolors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue." Fine Arts 18 (April 1932): 23–28, 52–55. Adirondack Museum. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Exhibition catalogue. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1959. 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. Flexner, James Thomas. The World of Winslow Homer 1936-1910. Time-Life Library of Art. New York: Time-Life Books, 1966. Johnston, Sona, introd. Winslow Homer Works on Paper. Exhibition brochure. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1978. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams, 1979. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981. Adams, Henry. "Mortal Themes: Winslow Homer." Art in America 71, no. 2 (February 1983): 11226. Cooper, Helen A. Winslow Homer Watercolors. Exhibition catalogue. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 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. Jones, Eleanor Lewis. "Deer Drinking: Reflections on a Watercolor by Winslow Homer." Smithsonian Studies in American Art vol 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1988) 2, no. 3: 5465. Weidner, Ruth Irwin. "Images of the Hunt in 19th-Century America and Their Sources in British and European Art." PhD. diss., University of Delaware, 1988. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. Winslow Homer. The Library of American Art. New York: Abrams, 1990. Zbornik, Matthew. Winslow Homer, Water and Light: Selected Watercolors, 1874-1897. Exhibition catalogue. Miami: Center for the Fine Arts, 1992. Beneduce, Ann Kay. A Weekend with Winslow Homer. New York: Rizzoli, 1993. Tatham, David. "Recently Discovered Daybook Reveals Winslow Homer's Participation in Deer Hunting in the Adirondacks." The American Art Journal 26, no.1/2 (1994): 10812. Tatham, David. Winslow Homer: Fishing in the North Woods. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. Cikovsky, Nicolai, Charles Moffett, and Franklin Kelly. Winslow Homer. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1995. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Tatham, David. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996. Little, Carl. Winslow Homer: His Art, His Light, His Landscapes. Cobb, CA: First Glance Books, 1997. Kelly, Franklin. "Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of Homer" The Magazine Antiques 152, no. 4 (October 1997): 546-549. Neset, Arne. "Rowing in Eden: Waterscapes in 19th Century American Art and Literature." American Studies in Scandinavia 30, no. 1 (1998): oo, 1–16. Harvey, Eleanor and Lyle C. Gray. "Carl Rungius in Context." The Magazine Antiques 156, no. 6 (November 1999): 726–35. Unger, Miles. The Watercolors of Winslow Homer. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Johns, Elizabeth. Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of Califorinia Press, Ltd., 2002. Griffin, Randall C. Homer, Eakins, & Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University, 2004. Goodrich, Lloyd. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. Edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts. 5 vols. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005. Simpson, Marc, and Susannah Maurer. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005. Tadeschi, Martha, and Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.

Provenance

[Doll & Richards, Boston, 1890]; John Morrison-Fuller, Brookline, Mass. (from 1890–d. 1910); Berenice Morrison-Fuller, his wife, Saint Louis (from 1910); [Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, New York, by 1947]; [M. Knoedler & Co., sold to Clark, 3 Nov. 1947]; Sterling and Francine Clark (1947–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.