id: 124235 accession number: 1945.229 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.229 updated: 2020-11-24 10:00:26.404000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1873 creation date earliest: 1873 creation date latest: 1873 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: watercolor, gouache, and graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.7 x 34.6 cm (7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. 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 Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (October 6, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Homer at the Beach opening date: 2019-08-02T04:00:00 Homer at the Beach. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA (organizer) (August 2-December 1, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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/1945.229/1945.229_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.229/1945.229_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.229/1945.229_full.tif