COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1945.229
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Homer, Winslow
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1836 - 1910
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Winslow Homer
Title:
A Clam-Bake
Title Type:
Primary
Title:
The Clambake
Title Type:
Alternate
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1873
Creation Start Date:
1873
Creation End Date:
1873
Materials and Techniques:
watercolor, gouache, and graphite
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19.7cm x 34.6cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1945.229
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson
Inscriptions:
signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873
Context:
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1945.229.tif
