Details
Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Cow in Pasture
signed and dated 'Homer 1878' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
6 ½ x 11 1/8 in. (16.5 x 28.3 cm.)
Provenance
Lawson Valentine, New York, circa 1879.
Lucy Houghton Valentine, wife of the above, 1891.
Almira Valentine Pulsifer, daughter of the above, 1911.
Lawson Valentine Pulsifer, Mountainville, New York, son of the above.
Alice Pulsifer Doyle, daughter of the above, gift from the above, by 1949.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 April 1980, lot 46.
Private collection.
Christie's, New York, 3 June 1983, lot 54a.
Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas, acquired from the above.
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1987.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 77.
Literature
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, p. 96.
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 to March 1881, vol. III, New York, 2008, p. 112, no. 670, illustrated.
Exhibited
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, Winslow Homer in New York State, June 29-August 22, 1963, p. 28, no. 18.
Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, Winslow Homer, September 8-October 15, 1963, no. 2.