id: 131337 accession number: 1954.128 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.128 updated: 2024-08-08 15:14:30.362000 Boy with Anchor, 1873. Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Watercolor and gouache with graphite; sheet: 19.4 x 34.9 cm (7 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1954.128 title: Boy with Anchor title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1873 creation date earliest: 1873 creation date latest: 1873 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: watercolor and gouache with graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19.4 x 34.9 cm (7 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(2) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in black watercolor: homer 1873; signed, lower right, in black watercolor: homer 18[illegible, partially painted out] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Water Color opening date: 1962-06-06T04:00:00 Water Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962). 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: Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth opening date: 1968-04-23T05:00:00 Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (June 28-August 18, 1968); Seattle Art Museum (September 5-October 13, 1968). title: Winslow Homer opening date: 1995-10-15T04:00:00 Winslow Homer. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 15, 1995-January 28, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 21-May 26, 1996). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light opening date: 2008-02-16T00:00:00 Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 16-May 11, 2008). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE John M. Hay [1838-1910], former Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Mrs. C. E. Meder (a household employee of John M. Hay), Kirtland, OH, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art. date: ?-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October - December, 1953.” The Art Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Summer 1954): 179-190. page number: Mentioned: p. 180 url: Francis, Henry S. "Recent Additions to the Collection of Homer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 3 (1955): 51-54. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52-53 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. 561 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n105 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. 186 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n210 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. 186 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n210 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Celeste Adams, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 10-11. 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. 231 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n251 Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Harry N. Abram, 1979. page number: Reproduced: Plate CL-554, p. 318 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art and Michael J. Miller. Drawing, A Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 17-18 url: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, D. Scott Atkinson, and Jochen Wierich. Winslow Homer in Gloucester. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1990. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 31 url: Placidi, Kathleen S. "Beyond Bootblacks: "The Boat Builder" and the Art of John George Brown." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 10 (1990): 366-82. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 370-71 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161306 Cikovsky, Nicolai, Franklin Kelly, and Winslow Homer. Winslow Homer. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 68, p. 137 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 86, p. 8, pp. 208-209, p. 295 url: Johns, Elizabeth. Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 45, p. 75 url: The Art Institute of Chicago, Martha Tedeschi, and Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 44, p. 46, no. 11 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.128/1954.128_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.128/1954.128_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.128/1954.128_full.tif