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Artists: Winslow Homer

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Artist(s): Winslow Homer (Boston, MA, Feb 24, 1836 - Sep 29, 1910, Prout's Neck, Scarboro, ME)
Title: Waiting for a Bite
Date: 1874
Dimensions: 7 5/16 in. x 13 5/16 in. (18.57 cm x 33.81 cm)
Medium: watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Mary D. and Arthur L. Williston, 1948.28

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

Artists: Winslow Homer
Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Winslow Homer: Illustrator, Smith College Museum of Art, 2/4/1951 - 3/30/1951
Works by Winslow Homer, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/16/1973 - 12/16/1973
Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, Addison Gallery of American Art, 12/12/1980 - 1/4/1980
Faculty Choice Show: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Photographs and Sculpture from, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/5/1988 - 7/31/1988
Winslow Homer at the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/1990 - 7/31/1990
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
The Lure of Fishing: Historic and Contemporary Images of Fish and Fishermen, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 3/13/1994 - 5/1/1994
Places and Pleasures: Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Winslow Homer: Artist and Illustrator, Norman Rockwell Museum, 7/3/1998 - 8/30/1998
Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2/18/2001 - 5/6/2001
Winslow Homer: Land and Sea, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2008 - 3/23/2008
Color and Light: Watercolors from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/15/2017 - 10/15/2017
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020

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