Boy Holding Logs

Artist Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

Date1873

MediumOil on board

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (30.8 x 23.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/4 x 19 3/8 x 3 in. (56.5 x 49.2 x 7.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.69

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Nineteenth

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Signedbottom left: Homer ‘73

Inscribedverso top right quadrant: c 10542 / Boy Holding Logs / Winslow Homer; verso top left: 66.2486

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th Century American Galleries (110), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Images of Children, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, August 17–November 4, 1979ProvenanceArthur B. Homer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Canda, NJ, by purchase Mara Canda (son of Frederick), by gift Mrs. Mara Canda, by bequest John W. Agnew (nephew of Mr. Canda), Indianapolis, by gift E. C. Babcock Art Galleries, New York, 1957 Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Greenwich, CT, 1957 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1966.2486, 1966–86 Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie’s, New York, May 30, 1986, sale 6142, lot 48 Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1989 from the Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, "University Park, Pennsylvania—An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review 33, no. 4 (2021): 111, 112 (ill., color). Joyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 23, 24 (fig. 18), 28n38, 188 (ill., color), 189. An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 13 (no. 39). Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, 3 vols. (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2005), 2:211 (ill., no. 430). Beverly Ann Chin et al., Glencoe Literature: The Reader’s Choice, Course 3 (New York: Glencoe, McGraw-Hill, 2002), 187 (ill., color). Sidney T. Kidney, “Homer on the Block,” Winslow Homer: An Annual (1987), 76. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, May 30, 1986 (New York: Christie’s, 1986), 56–57 (ill., color, no. 48). Rita Reif, “Auctions,” New York Times, May 23, 1986. Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979), 282 (ill., CL–53).