The Return, Tynemouth (recto) Study (verso)

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The Return, Tynemouth (recto) Study (verso)

Winslow HomerLinkedCulture matchlcp-bcddaaacf48f

Date
1881
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, heightened with gum glaze, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately-textured, ivory wove paper (left and lower edges trimmed)
Culture
United States
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
113064

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During Homer's sojourn in England from 1881 to 1882, he rented a studio on a cliff overlooking Cullercoats Harbor, where he observed the comings and goings of fishing boats. The Return, Tynemouth depicts two fishermen who have arrived on shore in early morning. Because this watercolor was painted with light-fast pigments, it retains the pale, orange-pink washes that have faded from many of the extant watercolors he painted with fugitive red pigments ; for this reason, it offers a more complete idea of his developing powers in decorative color. Homer's study of the British Library's drawings by Michelangelo and Raphael during this 1881-82 trip to England may have improved his skill for rendering figures in motion, which are emphasized here by the artist's graphite underdrawing.

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Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Provenance
The artist to his brother, Charles S. Homer, Jr. (1834–1917), New York, by 1910 [according to correspondence from Abigail Booth Gerdts to the Art Institute, February 10, 2007]. Charles W. Gould (1849–1931), New York, by 1915 [Brooklyn exh. cat. 1915]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, November 11, 1915 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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