The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 10, 2024
White Mare
c. 1868
(American, 1836–1910)
Framed: 32.5 x 45 x 4.5 cm (12 13/16 x 17 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 20 x 32.6 cm (7 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1958.33
Location: not on view
Description
In August 1868 Winslow Homer, then working as a free-lance illustrator, visited the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As early as the 1820s, American artists used the White Mountains as a setting for landscape paintings. Unlike Thomas Cole (1802-1848) and Asher Durand (1796-1886), who focused on the unspoiled wilderness, Homer turned his attention to other tourists. He made this oil sketch as a study for the horse in a large oil painting The Bridal Path, White Mountains (1868; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts).- Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg (purchased from the artist); (Valentine Gallery, New York, 12 January 1942); Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, A Selection of Six: American Paintings from the Clark Collection (17 November 1990-13 January 1991).Winslow Homer: Portrait of America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966).Louisville, KY, J. B. Speed Memorial Museum (13 February-5 March 1944).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1958.33