Detail View: The AMICA Library: The Clambake
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1945.229
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Homer, Winslow
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1836 - 1910
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Winslow Homer
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Title:
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A Clam-Bake
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Title Type:
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Primary
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Title:
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The Clambake
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Title Type:
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Alternate
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1873
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Creation Start Date:
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1873
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Creation End Date:
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1873
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Materials and Techniques:
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watercolor, gouache, and graphite
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 19.7cm x 34.6cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1945.229
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson
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Inscriptions:
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signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873
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Rights:
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Context:
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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.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1945.229.tif
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