A Clam-Bake
1873
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and graphite
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 34.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-211133
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
Provenance
Johnson, 1945.229
Registry history
- 1873 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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