id: 124040 accession number: 1944.524 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.524 updated: 2019-11-18 10:16:12.347000 The Brierwood Pipe, 1864. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Oil on canvas; framed: 68.9 x 64.1 x 9.2 cm (27 1/8 x 25 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.); unframed: 42.8 x 37.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); former: 69 x 64 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1944.524 title: The Brierwood Pipe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1864 creation date earliest: 1864 creation date latest: 1864 current location: 207 American Realism creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 19th 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: 68.9 x 64.1 x 9.2 cm (27 1/8 x 25 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 42.8 x 37.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); Former: 69 x 64 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: Homer 64 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Atmospheric Depth in Painting opening date: 1947-02-10T05:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Atmospheric Depth in Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 31, 1947). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Winslow Homer: Portrait of America opening date: 1965-11-10T05:00:00 Winslow Homer: Portrait of America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966). title: Winslow Homer opening date: 1995-10-15T04:00:00 Winslow Homer. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Landover, MD (October 15, 1995-January 28, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 21-May 26, 1996). title: The Civil War and American Art opening date: 2012-11-16T00:00:00 The Civil War and American Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (November 16, 2012-April 27, 2013); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (May 21-September 2, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, Dodworth's Studio Building, Fourth Artists' Reception (before 25 March 1864); see Winslow Homer: The Paintings of the Civil War p. 21.
New York, National Academy of Design, Thirty-ninth Annual Exhibition (April, 1864), no. 140, listed p. 451.
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer (16 November-17 December 1944), no. 2.
Oxford, OH, Miami University, Sesquicentennial Celebration (15 May-15 June 1959).
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Civil War: The Artists' Record (18 November-31 December 1961); traveled to Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts (1 February-4 March 1962); pp. 63-64, illus. no. 46, p. 66.
San Fransisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco, Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War (2 July-18 September 1988); traveled to Portland, Portland Museum of Art (8 October-18 December 1988); cat. no. 8, fig. 8.1, pp. 166-172; also included references to CMA painting pp. 21, 72-73, 111-112, 115, 119, 161, 195-196, 208-215, 236.
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer (15 October 1995-28 January 1996); traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (21 February-26 May 1996); New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20 June-22 September 1996); illus. no. 3, pg. 43.
Smithsonian American Art Museuem, Washington, DC (11/16/2012 - 4/27/2013) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (5/21/2013 - 9/2/2013): "The Civil War and American Art" --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1944- footnotes: citations: Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams (Helen Foster), Brookline, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: Probably 1940-1944 footnotes: citations: * Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. 2005. page number: url: Zabdiel Boylston Adams [1875-1940], Brookline, MA, to his wife, Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams1 date: 1915 - probably 1940 footnotes: * 1The exact mode of transfer and date of this painting from Mr. to Mrs. Boylston Adams are unknown, but she likely received it upon his death in 1940. citations: Annie Adams Fields (Mrs. James T. Fields) [1834-1915], Boston, MA, by bequest to her nephew, Zabdiel Boylston Adams date: 1881-1915 footnotes: citations: James Thomas Fields [1817-1881], Boston, MA date: -1881 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: During the Civil War, Homer worked as an artist-reporter for the New York newspaper Harper's Weekly. digital description: wall description: Homer’s subject was inspired by a sentimental poem popular at the time, in which a Civil War soldier carves a wooden pipe and daydreams of the time when the conflict will end so that he can return home. The painting depicts two volunteers for the Union Army who sport their regiment’s highly colorful uniforms, a design soon discovered as impractical due to its ability to be spotted by sharpshooters. The museum acquired this work during World War II. It seems likely that the painting’s imagery was viewed as especially significant for its wartime audience. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Marr, Timothy. "The American Zouave." Military Images 34, no. 4. 22-29 page number: Reproduced: 22-23, 27. url: 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. 543 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n101 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 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. 231 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n251 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.524/1944.524_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.524/1944.524_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.524/1944.524_full.tif