id: 106088 accession number: 1924.195 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.195 updated: 2019-06-27 08:02:07.932000 Early Morning After a Storm at Sea, 1900-1903. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Oil on canvas; framed: 111 x 160 x 12 cm (43 11/16 x 63 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 76.8 x 127 cm (30 1/4 x 50 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.195 title: Early Morning After a Storm at Sea title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1900-1903 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1903 current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism creditline: Gift of J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: America, late 19th-early 20th Century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 111 x 160 x 12 cm (43 11/16 x 63 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 76.8 x 127 cm (30 1/4 x 50 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "HOMER / 1902" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00 Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: The Sea opening date: 1950-09-23T04:00:00 The Sea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 23-October 25, 1950). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence opening date: 1990-09-19T04:00:00 Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-November 25, 1990); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (December 16, 1990-February 10, 1991); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (March 16-May 12, 1991). title: Weatherbeaten: The Late Paintings of Winslow Homer opening date: 2012-09-20T00:00:00 Weatherbeaten: The Late Paintings of Winslow Homer. Portland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 20-December 30, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, Union League Club, Paintings by Contemporary Americans (8-10 January 1903).
New York, Society of American Artists, Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition (28 March-3 May 1903).
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, The Eighth Annual Exhibition at The Carnegie Institute (5 November 1903-1 January 1904), no. 75.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition (25 January-5 March 1904)
St. Louis, Louisiana Purchase Universal Exposition (May-December, 1904)
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists (11 May-1 September 1910); cat. no. 117, listed p. 38.
St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists (September 15 - November 15, 1910); cat. 120.
New York City, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins (May, 1930), fig. 17.
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Winslow Homer 1836-1910 (2 May-8 June 1936), fig. 29.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Art Exhibit of The Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), no. 359, listed pp. 133-134.
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Annual Exhibition of American Art (2 April-3 May 1937); cat. no. 32.
New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer: Centenary Exhibition (15 December 1936-15 January 1937), fig. 33, illus.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer (28 January-7 March 1937); traveled to Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, (March 1937-May 1937) pp. 7-13 fig. 29.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Exhibition of American Painting From 1860 Until Today at The Cleveland Museum of Art (23 June-4 October 1937), no. 85, p. 26.
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer (16 November-17 December 1944), no. 82, p. 7.
New York, Wildenstein for the Benefit of The New York Botanical Garden, Winslow Homer (19 February-22 March 1947), no. 37.
Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, The Coast and the Sea: A Survey of American Marine Painting (19 November 1948-16 January 1949); cat. no. 61.
Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Chief Movements in Modern American Painting 1900-1950 (14 November 1951-6 January 1952)
Frankfurt, Stadelsches Kunstitut, Hundert Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1800-1900 (14 March-3 May 1953); traveled to Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (15 May-28 June 1953); Hanburg, Kunsthalle (18 July-30 August 1953); (in addition shows were added in Berlin and Düsseldorf-see Whitney Museum catalogue for further information); cat. no. 45, illus. fig. 32.
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Mostra Di Pittura Americana Del XIX Secolo (19 January-7 February 1954), no. 82; seems to also have traveled to Milan (see Whitney Museum catalogue for further information).
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, American Painting in the Nineteenth Century, (22 April-23 May 1954), cat. no. 86.
Oguinquit, ME, Museum of Art, Summer Exhibition (1 July-12 September 1954), cat. no. 8; illus.
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Institute, American Classics of the Nineteenth Century (1957); traveled to Utica, The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Manchester, The Currier Gallery of Art, cat. no. 62.
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), fig. 74.
Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics by Winslow Homer (11 October-1 December 1963), cat. no. 31, illus. p. 45.
Akron, Akron Institute of Art, Retrospective on Winslow Homer (25 March-11 May 1969).
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); traveled to Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 Sept
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23 - May 18, 2003. "Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age" no catalogue.
Portland Museum of Art, ME (9/20/2012 - 12/30/2012): "Weatherbeaten: The Late Paintings of Winslow Homer", fig. 10, p. 100. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1924- footnotes: citations: (Frank Rehn, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1924 footnotes: citations: * Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries records, Miscellaneous Records: Lists of Paintings, 1920-1968, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Reel 5872 (87-725)]. page number: url: Cornelius Vanderbilt Barton, New York, NY, consigned to Frank Rehn, Inc. date: 1918-1924 footnotes: citations: * Abigail Booth Gerdts, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 31, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * New York Tribune, March 15, 1924, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * W.M.M., “Early Morning After a Storm at Sea by Winslow Homer,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11.3 (March 1924): 51-53 page number: url: * Winslow Homer, Series IV. Inventory cards, 1859-1971, M. Knoedler & Co. Records, box 135, Getty Research Institute page number: url: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt Barton)1 date: 1917-1918 footnotes: * 1Bixby returned the painting to Knoedler in December 1917 (stock no. C 4847), and in March 1918 the gallery sold it to Barton. citations: * Abigail Booth Gerdts, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 31, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * New York Tribune, March 15, 1924, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * W.M.M., “Early Morning After a Storm at Sea by Winslow Homer,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11.3 (March 1924): 51-53. page number: url: * page number: url: William K. Bixby [1857-1931], St. Louis, MO, returned to Knoedler & Co. date: 1904-1917 footnotes: citations: * Abigail Booth Gerdts, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 31, 2013, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: * New York Tribune, March 15, 1924, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * W.M.M., “Early Morning After a Storm at Sea by Winslow Homer,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11.3 (March 1924): 51-53.
 page number: url: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to William K. Bixby)1 date: 1903-1904 footnotes: * 1Knoedler represented the painting on Homer's instruction. Some versions of this provenance begin with Chicago dealer William O'Brien. However, he represented the work only briefly and failed to sell it. In 1900 O'Brien approached Homer, proposing to act as an agent to solicit a new painting. Homer accepted O'Brien's proposition in July 1900, and on November 14, 1902, Homer informed O'Brien that the so-called "O'Brien picture," as he referred to the painting, had been sent. He did not consider O'Brien as having a claim on the work, but offered him the first opportunity to show and sell it as a courtesy. However, the painting had to be returned to New York by January 8, 1903 in time for an exhibition at the Union League Club. Thus, O'Brien's association with the painting lasted just six weeks. citations: * Abigail Booth Gerdts, letter to Victoria Sears Goldman, March 31, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The powerful Atlantic surf pounding against the desolate coast of Prouts Neck, Maine, provided primary subject matter for the dramatic paintings that Homer created during his final decades. This example, which the artist proclaimed as "the best picture of the sea that I have painted," was initially conceived as a watercolor. Undertaking the composition in oil after a lapse of nearly two decades, Homer patiently waited for the appropriate atmospheric conditions, executing the work in four different sessions spread over two years. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS City Art Museum of St. Louis. Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. St. Louis, Mo: The Museum, 1900. page number: Mentioned: p. 49, #120 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 34 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n36 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 42 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n46 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n22 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 549 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n102 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 187 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n211 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 187 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n211 Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. page number: Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 95 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n252 Ross, Clifford, Jay A. Clarke, Phong Bui, and Orville Schell. Hurricane Waves. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 11, fig. 3 url: Athens, Elizabeth, Brandon Ruud and Martha Tedeschi. Coming Away: Winslow Homer & England. Worcester, MA : Worcester Art Museum ; Milwaukee, WI : Milwaukee Art Museum ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 149, cat. # 67; p. 81, fig. 10 (detail): Mention: p. 56, 166 url: American Art Review. "Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England." American Art Review 30, no. 3 (May/June 2018): 54-57. page number: Reproduced: p. 56, top url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.195/1924.195_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.195/1924.195_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.195/1924.195_full.tif