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Boys Beaching a Dory

Artist Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910

Date1880

DimensionsH: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); W: 13 3/8 in. (33.9mm)

MediumDrawing and watercolor on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1950.274

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Published ReferencesGoodrich, L., Winslow Homer, New York, 1959, pl. 38.

Gould, J., Winslow Homer: A Portrait, 1962, p. 186, repr. p. 187.

Steadman, William, Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, 1963, no. 128, repr.

Washington, Seldon, "Americans at Home and Faraway," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 7, no. 3, Autumn 1964, pp. 51-54, repr. p. 55.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 61-62, pl. 58.

Hendricks, Gordon, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, p. 114, repr. CL-567, p. 319.

Goodrich, Lloyd, Record of the works by Winslow Homer, New York,Spanierman Gallery, 2009, no. 926, p. 320, repr.

Exhibition HistoryBrunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Art Department; New London, N.H., Colby Junior College for Women, The Art of Winslow Homer, December 1954.

Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, Oct. 11-Dec. 1, 1963.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984-85.

Toledo Museum of Art, Transparent Color, May 3 - Aug. 25, 2002.

Toledo Museum of Art, Prints and Authors from the Time of Manet, Sept. 13, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013.

Toledo Musuem of Art, Fun and Games: The Pursuit of Leisure, Jun. 27-Sept. 21, 2014.

Toledo Museum of Art, Earthly Beauty, May 29-Sept. 6, 2015.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Museum, Homer at the Beach, Aug. 2-Dec. 1, 2019.

Label TextWinslow Homer was chiefly self-taught as an artist. He began producing illustrations for Harper’s Weekly in 1857 and became an artist/correspondent with the Union Army during the Civil War. He began seriously painting in watercolor in 1873. Homer eventually settled in Maine while spending the winters in Cuba, the Bahamas, Florida, or Bermuda, and the summers in the Adirondacks and Canada. Despite his isolation from the art world, Homer achieved wide recognition in his lifetime, and is ranked as one of the great realists of American painting. Homer spent the summer of 1880 at Gloucester, Massachusetts., where he made more than a hundred watercolors of life in a fishing community.