About This Artwork

Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910

Coast of Maine, 1893

Oil on canvas
61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.)
Signed, lower left: "Homer 93"
Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection, 1931.505

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Cleveland Museum of Art, Reckoning with Winslow Homer, Sept. 19-Nov. 18, 1990, fig. 14; traveled to Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1990-Feb. 10, 1991; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Museum of Art, Mar.16-May 12, 1991.

Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, "Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago"; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 20-May 29, 1994, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6-Sept. 25, 1994.

Publication History

Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: the Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques, (Lakeside Group, 1988), p. 22, fig. 3.

Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 9.

Ownership History

Arthur Jerome Eddy, Chicago, from c. 1893 to 1931; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.