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WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)

Lot 274
19.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 274 | WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
Farmhouse on a Hill
signed and dated 'Winslow Homer 1878' (lower left)
watercolor and gouache on paper
10 x 18 ¼ in. (25.4 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted in 1878




Provenance

(probably) Wm. A. Butters & Co., Chicago (December 1879).
Mrs. Gannon, Chicago.
Katherine Gannon Phemister, Chicago (by descent from the above, by 1936).
Bruce Phemister, Chicago (by descent from the above).
Victor D. Spark, New York (1961).
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York; sale to benefit the Whitney Museum Fund, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 11 May 1966, lot 12.
Joan Whitney and Charles Shipman Payson, New York (probably acquired at the above sale).
By descent from the above to the present owner.



Literature

(probably) "Fine Arts. Water Color Exhibition" in New York Herald, 24 February 1879.
(probably) M.G. Van Rensselaer, "Recent Pictures in New York" in American Architect and Building News, vol. V, 22 March 1879, p. 93.
L. Goodrich and A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 to March 1881, New York, 2008, vol. II, p. 110, no. 667 (illustrated).



Exhibited

(probably) New York, American Water Color Society, Twelfth Annual Exhibition, 1879, p. 19, no. 356 (titled Old House).
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, Winslow Homer in New York State, June-August 1963, p. 29, no. 19.
Kyoto Municipal Museum and Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, From Goya to Wyeth, The Joan Whitney Payson Collection, September-December 1980, no. 68 (illustrated in color).
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art: 1880-1980, April-July 1982.
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