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Winslow Homer

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Artist(s): Winslow Homer (Boston, MA, Feb 24, 1836 - Sep 29, 1910, Prout's Neck, Scarboro, ME)
Title: Kissing the Moon
Date: 1904
Dimensions: 30 1/4 in. x 40 in. (76.84 cm x 101.6 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, bequest of Candace C. Stimson, 1946.19
Location: On loan

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Artists: Winslow Homer
Exhibitions: In and Out of Place
Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Poetry
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2/6/1911 - 3/19/1911
Winslow Homer, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., 2/19/1947 - 3/22/1947
The Coast and the Sea, Brooklyn Museum, 11/19/1948 - 1/17/1949
Paintings, 1900-1925, The Cincinnati Art Museum, 2/2/1951 - 3/4/1951
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century, American Federation of Arts, 3/1/1953 - 5/23/1954
Second Annual Exhibition, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 7/1/1954 - 9/12/1954
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 11/22/1958 - 5/3/1959
At Work: Daumier to Shahn, Milwaukee Art Museum, 10/20/1960 - 12/4/1960
Maine and Its Artists, 1710-1963 [Colby College Sesquicentennial Exhibition], Colby College Museum of Art, 5/4/1963 - 8/31/1963
Homer and the Sea, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 9/27/1964 - 11/29/1964
Seven Decades, 1895-1965: Cross Currents in Modern Art, Public Education Association, 4/26/1966 - 5/21/1966
New England Art from New England Museums, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, 1/15/1969 - 3/2/1969
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
American Masters: 1871-1972, Birmingham Museum of Art, 2/27/1972 - 3/26/1972
Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, 4/3/1973 - 10/21/1973
Works by Winslow Homer, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/16/1973 - 12/16/1973
Winslow Homer, Portland Museum of Art, 6/6/1974 - 7/21/1974
The Drama of the Sea, The Heckscher Museum of Art, 5/11/1975 - 6/15/1975
Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/12/1980 - 1/4/1980
Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/9/1981 - 6/14/1981
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
Winslow Homer and the New England Coast, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, 11/9/1984 - 1/9/1985
New Horizons: American Painting, 1840-1910, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 11/16/1987 - 7/10/1988
Winslow Homer at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 7/31/1990
Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, 9/19/1990 - 5/12/1991
1/4" scale: Models of American Sailing Ships, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/25/1994 - 1/12/1995
Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, 10/15/1995 - 9/22/1996
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Sea Change, The Parrish Art Museum, 9/13/1998 - 11/15/1998
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
A Fair Wind: Maritime Paintings by Winslow Homer, The Chrysler Museum of Art, 6/10/2000 - 8/20/2000
Conversations: A Collection in Dialogue, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/7/2003 - 7/31/2003
Winslow Homer's America, New Britain Museum of American Art, 3/26/2003 - 7/13/2003
Director's Choice: A Fresh Look at Winslow Homer, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2004 - 2/27/2005
Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, Terra Foundation of American Art, 2/22/2006 - 10/8/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, American Federation of Arts, 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/23/2007 - 4/8/2007
The Discerning Eye: Five Perspectives on the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/4/2007 - 12/30/2007
Winslow Homer: Land and Sea, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2008 - 3/23/2008
Then and Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/10/2008 - 7/13/2008
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
80 @ 80 , Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/15/2011 - 12/31/2011
Eye on the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/27/2013 - 7/31/2013
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
Heaven and Earth, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
In and Out of Place , Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/16/2019 - 7/31/2019
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4/4/2022 - 1/8/2023

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