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I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
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Winslow Homer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Art Institute of Chicago NEW! Mini-site for the 2008 exhibition Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Winslow Homer at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 5 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Musée d'Orsay, Paris "Works in focus:" Summer Night
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Perils of the Sea, 1888 (Zoom)
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 3 works online
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut A Game of Croquet
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut The Old Mill (Morning Bell)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Drawing attributed to Winslow Homer
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Works by Winslow Homer
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Crossing the Pasture
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Blyth Sands
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe The Morning Bell, 1873
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe Corn Husking, 1874
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York NEW! 5 works on this page are by Winslow Homer
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana 2 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Making Hay
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Various works by and several photographs of the artist
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City The Houses of Parliament, 1881
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio NEW! Snap the Whip
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Girl Picking Clover (Houghton Farm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Sunday Morning in Virginia Hauling in Anchor (Key West)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Two Guides, ca.1875
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Undertow, 1886
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts River Scene, Florida, ca.1904
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts An October Day, watercolor, 1889
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Fishing, 1875
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Girl in the Hammock, 1873
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine The Trapper, 1870
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Haymaking, 1864
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City 3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 3 works online
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public Spring, 1878
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida The White Rowboat, St. Johns River, 1890
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 19 works online
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Guides Shooting Rapids, 1895
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts "Anything For Me if You Please?" - Post-Office of the Brooklyn Fair, 1864
Denver Art Museum, Colorado Two Figures by the Sea
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 25 paintings, 7 of which are online
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont The Tent (Summer By The Sea), ca.1874
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Beaver Mountain, Adirondacks
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma Watching the Brakers, 1891
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina Note that the JPG image for "Ship Building" is displayed smaller than its actual size
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Girl on a Swing, pencil drawing, 1879
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Girl on a Swing, watercolor, 1879
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York A Good One, Adirondacks, 1889
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York Adirondack Guide, ca.1876
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Trooper Meditating Beside a Grave, ca.1865
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois Cerney la Ville, 1867
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Maryland State Archives
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts Inland Waters, 1901
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York 74 works listed
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont Eight Bells
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Hark! The Lark
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City Croquet Player, ca.1865
Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan Answering the Horn, 1876
National Art Museum of Sport at Indiana University, Indianapolis
Winslow Homer at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Part of an online exhibit focusing on Winslow Homer's experience during the Civil War
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Skirmish
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Weaning the Calf, 1875
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma The Army of the Potomac-A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine 12 works online (click the different thumbnails to see the different works)
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania On the Shore
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art On a Lee Shore (see middle row)
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri The Country School, 1871
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska A Dark Hour - Tynemouth, charcoal drawing with wash
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Early Evening
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Sun and Clouds, 1882
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Cloud Shadows
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! 13 works online (click "Artwork by This Artist" to see the complete list)
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Near Andersonville, 1866
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Beaver Mountain, ca.1876
The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee Rab and the Girls (Over the Hills), 1875 (Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Virtual Museum of Canada High Cliff, Coast of Maine, 1894
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Children on a Fence, 1874
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Old Friends, 1894 Boys and Kitten, 1873
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
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