Sale 527
Estimate$400,000 – $600,000
Property from an Important Chicago Collection Provenance: Somerville Art Gallery, 5-6 May 1873, no. 64 J. F. Harral, Aurora, Illinois, nd Acquired from the above, Private Collection, 1944 Thence by descent to present owner Exhibited: Artists' Reception, Tenth Street Studio Building, New York, 27 March 1873 Rufus Ellis Moore, New York, 26 April-6 May, 1873, no. 64 Edward Brown, New York, c. 19-26 February, 1878, no. 11 (exhibited at Kurtz Gallery) Literature: Reception in the Tenth Street Studio Building, (NY) Evening Post, 28 March, 1873 Art Notes, (NY) Daily Graphic, 22 April, 1873 Pictures at the Sommerville Gallery, The Arcadian I (1 May 1873): 10 The Fine Arts. The American Collection in the Sommerville Gallery, The Best Works by Our Best Artists, New York Times, 3 May 1873 Fine Arts, (NY) World, 4 May 1873 The Drama and Art, New York Daily Tribune, 6 May 1873 Pictures at the Kurtz Gallery, An Array of Art Works to Be Disposed of at Public Sale, (NY) Daily Graphic, 20 February, 1878 Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of works by Winslow Homer, Volume II: 1867-1876, p. 51, no. 305 (illustrated)
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