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accession number: 1945.229
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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
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).
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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.
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PROVENANCE
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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. 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
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