Mink Pond

Artists

Dimensions

35.2 × 50.8 cm (13 7/8 × 20 in.) mat: 55.9 × 69.9 cm (22 × 27 1/2 in.) frame: 59.7 × 73.7 × 1.6 cm (23 1/2 × 29 × 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Winslow Homer, gift; to his brother Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1892, bequest; to Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., 1917, bequest; to Arthur P. Homer, 1937, bequest; to Mrs. Arthur P. Homer, 1940, sold [via Martin Birnbaum, 1941] [1]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1941, bequest; Fogg Art Museum, 1943. [1] Birnbaum wrote to Winthrop on October 7, 1941: “There is a great, and unique watercolor by Winslow Homer. This belongs to the family and I am surprised that the Macbeth Gallery has not been approached.”