id:			124235
accession number:	1945.229
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.229
updated:		2020-03-19 09:00:16.174000

A Clam-Bake, 1873. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Watercolor, gouache, and graphite; sheet: 19.7 x 34.6 cm (7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson 1945.229

title:				A Clam-Bake
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creation date:			1873
creation date earliest:		1873
creation date latest:		1873
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	watercolor, gouache, and graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 19th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 19.7 x 34.6 cm (7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Winslow Homer: Portrait of America
	opening date:   1965-11-10T05:00:00
	<i>Winslow Homer: Portrait of America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966).

	title:		American Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1998-04-19T00:00:00
	<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

	title:		Winslow Homer and the Critics:  Forging a National Art in the 1870s
	opening date:   2001-02-18T00:00:00
	<i>Winslow Homer and the Critics:  Forging a National Art in the 1870s</i>. High Museum of Art (October 6, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		Homer at the Beach
	opening date:   2019-08-02T04:00:00
	<i>Homer at the Beach</i>. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA (organizer) (August 2-December 1, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98.  "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."<br>Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art; 10/6/01 - 1/6/02.  "Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s," fig. 48, p. 67.

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n251

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IMAGES

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