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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 12, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 50 | $****** - ****** | In the Rapids |
Works on Paper
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in)
watercolor on paper
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1905
Henriette H. Failing, Portland, Oregon, 1905 (acquired from the above)
William Macbeth, Inc., New York, 1924
Dr. Samuel Emlen Stokes, Moorestown, New Jersey, 1924
Mrs. Lydia Pratt Babbott Stokes, Moorestown, New Jersey (wife of the above)
By descent to the present owner, 1988
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of Watercolors, 1895, no. 7 (as Approach to the Rapids) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute; New York, M. Knoedler & Co.; Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design; Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Water Colors by Winslow Homer of Life and Scenes in the Province of Quebec (Canada), 1898-1899, no. 16 (as Rapids below Grand Discharge) New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1905 Portland, Oregon, Louis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair, June-October 1905, no. 53 Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Association, Loan Collection of Water Colors, February 1908, no. 107 (as The Rapids) Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Association, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Summer 1909, no. 196 (as Landscape) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1936, no. 81 (as Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, 1937, no. 79 (as Shooting the Rapids)
“Fine Arts. Pictures by Winslow Homer,” Evening Post, April 6, 1898, n.p.“Water Color Show New World Scenes. Wilds of North, Florida and Its Fishermen Portrayed by Homer,” World, April 23, 1905, n.p.Gene W. Teitelbaum, ed., "Winslow Homer in Canada," Winslow Homer: An Annual:1987, vol. 2., no. 44, fig, 13, pp. 21, 36, 45 illustrated (as Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River)Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1890 through 1910, vol. V, New York, 2014, no. 1575, pp. 196-97, illustrated pp. 196, 413
