Sun and Clouds

Object Details

• Artist

  Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

• Provenance

  To 1913

  Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, to 1913 [1]

  From 1913 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Knoedler & Co., New York, on April 4, 1913 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See American Paintings, List A, page 10, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Winslow Homer: Four Views of Nature (November 22, 2008 to May 25, 2009)

  Untitled Exhibition, Freer West Corridor (December 11, 1995 to March 4, 1996)

  American Paintings (May 31, 1979 to June 17, 1980)

  Untitled Exhibition, American Oil Paintings, Gallery 4, 1947 (September 25, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

  Untitled Exhibition, American Oil Paintings and Watercolors (May 10, 1945 to September 25, 1947)

  Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)

  American Paintings, Miscellaneous (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)

  Contemporary American Paintings (July to September 1918)

  Untitled, Detroit Club, December 1914 (December 1914)

• Previous custodian or owner

  M. Knoedler & Co. (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1880s

• Name

  Knoedler, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  United States, Sun

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art, Cloud, Ocean, Woman

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Paintings