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Winslow HomerIn the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)1873
1873
About the Item
"In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)" is a painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is signed, lower left, "Homer 1873". The framed piece measures 29 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.
During the early 1870s, Winslow Homer frequently painted scenes of country living near a small farm hamlet renowned for generations for its remarkable stands of wheat, situated between the Hudson River and the Catskills in New York state. Today Hurley is far more famous for inspiring one of Homer’s greatest works, Snap the Whip painted the summer of 1872.
Among the many other paintings inspired by the region, Girl Standing in the Wheatfield is rich in sentiment, but not over sentimentalized. It directly relates to an 1866 study painted in France entitled, In the Wheatfields, and another, painted the following year after he returned to America. But Homer would have undoubtedly been most proud of this one. It is a portrait, a costume study, a genre painting in the great tradition of European pastoral painting, and a dramatically backlit, atmospheric tour de force steeped in the quickly fading gloaming hour light buoyed with lambent, flowery notes and wheat spike touches. In 1874, Homer sent four paintings to the National Academy of Design exhibition. One was titled, “Girl”. Might it not be this one?
Provenance:
Sale: Clarence Collins et. al., American Art Association, New York, May 7, 1924, lot 96
Metropolitan Art Galleries, New York, 1924
M.A. Newhouse & Son, St. Louis, 1924
Laura Davidson Sears, Elgin, Illinois, 1924
Sears Academy of Fine Arts at the Elgin Academy, Illinois
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1967
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Pesses, Youngstown, Ohio, 1968
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1971
Private Collection, Massachusetts, 1972
Private Collection, Seattle, 1972–2013
Guarisco Gallery, Washington, D.C
Private Collection, Boston, 2013
Exhibition:
New York, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, American Paintings for Public and Private Collections, December 4, 1967-January 13, 1968, no. 54
Literature:
“8 Paintings Stolen at Illinois School,” New York Times, July 6, 1958
“Stolen Art Recovered,” New York Times, July 8, 1958
Goodrich, Lloyd and Gerdts, Abigail Booth, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume II: 1867 through 1876, New York, 2005, p. 209, no. 428 (illustrated)
- Creator:Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910, American)
- Creation Year:1873
- Dimensions:Height: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Width: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Palm Desert, CA
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Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was an American landscape painter, printmaker and publication illustrator. He is considered one of the most important American artists of the 19th-century. Largely self-taught Homer initially worked as an illustrator for various publications, including: Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Ballou's Pictorial Magazine. He worked for Harper's during the Civil War, producing woodcut engravings depicting the personal experiences of soldiers. He later became a master of oil and watercolor painting, often focussing on maritime themes. Harper’s Weekly, published in New York, was an extremely popular publication in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In weekly issues Harper’s reported the news, entertained with literature, poetry and art, as well as educating its readers about world affairs and new inventions. It's woodcut engraved illustrations and literature added to its popularity, employing major artists and authors of the time, including Winslow Homer, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Thomas Nast.
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