Winslow Homer
The Mussel Gatherers
1875-1885
Physical Qualities
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 371 × 551 mm. (14 5/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer
Object Number
1956.226
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1956; Fanny and Alvin Thalheimer, 1956; purchased from M. Knoedler and Co., New York; Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Henschel, New York, 1941; James W. Elsworth, Chicago, before 1890; purchased from the artist
Art Institute of Chicago, "The James W. Elsworth Collection," 1890.
Institute of Modern Art, Boston, "Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer," 21 June - 15 July 1941, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 9 August - 10 September 1941, no. 1.
BMA, "New Accessions," Summer 1957.
BMA, "American Classics of the 19th Century," April 1958.
National Gallery of Art, "Winslow Homer Retrospective," 22 November - 4 January 1959, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27 January - 8 March, 1959.
Milwaukee Art Center, "Men at Work--Daumier to Shahn," 20 October - 4 December 1960.
University Art Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, "Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors, and Graphics by Winslow Homer," 11 October - 1 December 1963, cat. 11.
BMA, "Winslow Homer: Works on Paper," 19 September - 5 November 1978.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England, "Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures," 20 September - 5 November 1988.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, "Cullercoats: A North East Colony of Artists," July 18, 2003 - October 12, 2003, cat. plate 31.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light." 16 February - 11 May 2008, cat. 20.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachussets, "Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England." November 11, 2017 - February 4, 2018.
Institute of Modern Art, Boston, "Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer," 21 June - 15 July 1941, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 9 August - 10 September 1941, no. 1.
BMA, "New Accessions," Summer 1957.
BMA, "American Classics of the 19th Century," April 1958.
National Gallery of Art, "Winslow Homer Retrospective," 22 November - 4 January 1959, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27 January - 8 March, 1959.
Milwaukee Art Center, "Men at Work--Daumier to Shahn," 20 October - 4 December 1960.
University Art Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, "Yankee Painter, A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors, and Graphics by Winslow Homer," 11 October - 1 December 1963, cat. 11.
BMA, "Winslow Homer: Works on Paper," 19 September - 5 November 1978.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England, "Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures," 20 September - 5 November 1988.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, "Cullercoats: A North East Colony of Artists," July 18, 2003 - October 12, 2003, cat. plate 31.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light." 16 February - 11 May 2008, cat. 20.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachussets, "Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England." November 11, 2017 - February 4, 2018.
"The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014, p. 102.
Kent Roberts Greenfield, "The Museum: It's First Half Century," Annual I, BMA, 1966, illus. p. 33.
"A Tribute to Adelyn D. Breeskin," BMA News Quarterly, vo. XXV, no. 4, Summer 1962, illus. p. 23.
Cover, BMA News, June 1958.
"Object of the Week," The Baltimore Sun, Sunday magazine section, August 4, 1957.
Lloyd Goodrich, "Winslow Homer," NY, 1944, p. 88.
Theodore Bolton, "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: Critique and Catalogue," The Fine Arts, XVIII (April 1932), p. 50.
Review of Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, "The Collector," NY, 1 September 1890, p. 146.
Athens, Elizabeth, Brandon Ruud, and Martha Tedeschi. Coming Away: Winslow Homer & England. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum; Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2017.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 55, ill.
Inscribed: by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: "Mussel Gatherers / N J D (illeg) / Mussel Gatherers / Winslow Homer"
