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Drawing, Study for "The Herring Net"
This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1884 and we acquired it in 1916. Its medium is black, brown and white chalk, brush and white gouache on green laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
During 1884–85, Homer completed a remarkable series of pictures documenting the life and work of the local fishing fleet working the waters off Casco Bay and the Grand Banks. The earliest of these, The Herring Net, derives from an experience during the summer of 1884 when Homer accompanied a fleet harvesting a large school of herring near the islands off Prouts Neck. In this large-format, black-and-white chalk drawing executed in the studio after on-site preliminary sketches, Homer shows the fishermen hauling a net full of frenetic fish into their dory in a pyramidal composition that recalls sixteenth- or seventeenth-century Italian and French religious scenes. This powerful study, along with the final picture,
which reproduces it with several changes to tighten up the composition, belonged to Cooper Union board member Charles W. Gould, who played a major role in acquiring nineteenth-century American drawings for the Cooper Union Museum.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Charles W. Gould.
It is credited Gift of Charles W. Gould.
- Drawing, Still-life of Fish, with Parrot
- black and white chalk on blue laid paper.
- Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund.
- 1938-66-2
- Frieze (USA)
- hand painted on drafting cloth.
- Gift of Abraham Edelman.
- 1992-28-3
Its dimensions are
42.3 x 52.3 cm (16 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: L. BERVILLE
It is inscribed
Verso: Numbered in black chalk: 60
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for "The Herring Net"; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; black, brown and white chalk, brush and white gouache on green laid paper; 42.3 x 52.3 cm (16 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.); Gift of Charles W. Gould; 1916-15-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
