{"data": {"id": 123437, "accession_number": "1943.660", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "A Fisherman's Daughter, 1873. Winslow Homer (American, 1836\u20131910). Watercolor and gouache over graphite; sheet: 24.2 x 32.9 cm (9 1/2 x 12 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.660", "current_location": null, "title": "A Fisherman's Daughter", "creation_date": "1873", "creation_date_earliest": 1873, "creation_date_latest": 1873, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["America"], "technique": "watercolor and gouache over graphite", "support_materials": [], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - American 19th Century", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 24.2 x 32.9 cm (9 1/2 x 12 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.242, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.329, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Signed: \"Winslow Homer\" lower right", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}, {"inscription": "Remnants of signature, lower left: \"W.H. June 1873\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 706871, "title": "Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin", "description": "<i>Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin</i>. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (organizer) (April 17-June 11, 1947).", "opening_date": "1947-04-17T05:00:00"}, {"id": 704989, "title": "The Work of Winslow Homer", "description": "<i>The Work of Winslow Homer</i>. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (February 1-28, 1951); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (March 1-April 1, 1951).", "opening_date": "1951-02-01T05:00:00"}, {"id": 520731, "title": "Homer and the Sea", "description": "<i>Homer and the Sea</i>. The Mariners' Museum and Park, Newport News, VA (September 27-October 19, 1964); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (organizer) (October 30-November 29, 1964).", "opening_date": "1964-09-27T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304725, "title": "Winslow Homer: Portrait of America", "description": "<i>Winslow Homer: Portrait of America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966).", "opening_date": "1965-11-10T05:00:00"}, {"id": 515992, "title": "Water Colors by Winslow Homer", "description": "<i>Water Colors by Winslow Homer</i>. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (July 8-August 28, 1966).", "opening_date": "1966-07-08T04:00:00"}, {"id": 223376, "title": "Winslow Homer and the Critics:  Forging a National Art in the 1870s", "description": "<i>Winslow Homer and the Critics:  Forging a National Art in the 1870s</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (February 18-May 6, 2001); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 10-September 9, 2001).", "opening_date": "2001-02-18T00:00:00"}, {"id": 204986, "title": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).", "opening_date": "2014-03-09T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Washington, D. C., The National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition (23 November 1958-4 January 1959); traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (29 January-8 March 1959)", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Edward M. Colie, East Orange, NJ", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Miss Margaret Colie, Mill Valley, CA", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "(Valentine Gallery, New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131943", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "December 29, 1943\u2013", "sortorder": 5}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Homer created some of the most luminous and influential watercolors in the history of the medium. A Fisherman\u2019s Daughter, painted in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is among a group of works that represent his first sustained use of the medium. Here, three girls sit on the shore of a sunlit beach and play with a lobster. Their downcast eyes suggest a solemn tranquility to their activity. The life of the local fishermen was perilous; they often spent weeks away from home and were sometimes lost at sea. Thus, waiting was a central part of life for Gloucester families. An overturned boat on the dunes behind the figures evokes the ominous form of a coffin.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79900647"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1943.660-a-fisherman-s-daught"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Conrads, Margaret C., and Winslow Homer. <em>Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s</em>. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2001.", "page_number": "fig. 59, p. 76", "url": null}, {"citation": "Burchfield, Louise H. \u201cAn Early Water Color by Winslow Homer.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 7 (September 1944): 141\u2013142, 145. <br>Published as: <em>Girls with Lobster</em>", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 141-142; Reproduced: p.145", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141147"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 165", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane and Lemonedes, Heather. \u201cTreasures on Paper: The Cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the museum\u2019s prints and drawings collection is now on view.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 54, no. 2 (March/April 2014): 6-9.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p.7 and Mentioned: p. 9", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-02"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.660", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.660/1943.660_web.jpg", "width": "1206", "height": "893", "filesize": "943728", "filename": "1943.660_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.660/1943.660_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2517", "filesize": "7135892", "filename": "1943.660_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.660/1943.660_full.tif", "width": "5000", "height": "3701", "filesize": "55551944", "filename": "1943.660_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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