Sea Garden, Bahamas

Artists

Description

The fragments at left and bottom, originally part of this watercolor, are on loan from the Yale University Art Gallery (Harvard Art Museums long-term loan: 482.1977; Yale University Art Gallery 1965.33.13a-b).

Dimensions

22.3 x 38.7 cm (8 3/4 x 15 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Winslow Homer, bequest; to his brother Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1910, sold; [to M. Knoedler and Co., NY, 1911], sold; [to William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1911], sold; to Charles K. Fox, Haverhill, MA, 1911, bequest; to his daughter, Mrs. Marjorie W. Freeman, Haverhill, MA, 1912, sold [through William Macbeth Inc., NY, 1931] [via Martin Birnbaum, 1932] [1]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, NY, 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943 [1] A letter in the curatorial file from Robert McIntyre, of William Macbeth Inc., reveals that his gallery sold the watercolor to Martin Birnbaum on December 7, 1932.