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The Brierwood Pipe

1864

Winslow Homer

(American, 1836–1910)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 68.9 x 64.1 x 9.2 cm (27 1/8 x 25 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 42.8 x 37.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); Former: 69 x 64 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 25 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1944.524

Location

207 American Realism

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During the Civil War, Homer worked as an artist-reporter for the New York newspaper Harper's Weekly.

Description

Homer’s subject was inspired by a sentimental poem popular at the time, in which a Civil War soldier carves a wooden pipe and daydreams of the time when the conflict will end so that he can return home. The painting depicts two volunteers for the Union Army who sport their regiment’s highly colorful uniforms, a design soon discovered as impractical due to its ability to be spotted by sharpshooters. The museum acquired this work during World War II. It seems likely that the painting’s imagery was viewed as especially significant for its wartime audience.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower left: Homer 64

Provenance

1944-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Probably 1940-1944

Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams (Helen Foster), Brookline, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1915 - probably 1940

Zabdiel Boylston Adams [1875-1940], Brookline, MA, to his wife, Mrs. Z. Boylston Adams1 ¹

1881-1915

Annie Adams Fields (Mrs. James T. Fields) [1834-1915], Boston, MA, by bequest to her nephew, Zabdiel Boylston Adams

-1881

James Thomas Fields [1817-1881], Boston, MA

Provenance Footnotes

¹1The exact mode of transfer and date of this painting from Mr. to Mrs. Boylston Adams are unknown, but she likely received it upon his death in 1940.

Citations

Marr, Timothy. "The American Zouave." Military Images 34, no. 4. 22-29 Reproduced: 22-23, 27.

Goodrich, Lloyd, and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. 2005.

Downes, William Howe. The Life and Works of Winslow Homer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1911. Mentioned: P. 51

Cox, Kenyon. Winslow Homer. New York: Privately printed, 1914. Mentioned: P. 18

Burchfield, Louise H. “Paintings by Winslow Homer.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 9 (November 1946): 165–71. Mentioned: P. 166; Reproduced: P. 168 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 543 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 187 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 187 archive.org

Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 10-13

“A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35. Mentioned: P. 28, no. 88 www.jstor.org

Williams, Hermann Warner. Mirror to the American Past; A Survey of American Genre Painting: 1750-1900. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1973. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 182-183, no. 176

Grossman, Julian. Echo of a Distant Drum: Winslow Homer and the Civil War. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 112-113

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 231 archive.org

Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Winslow Homer. New York: Harry N. Abrams,1979. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 318, no. CL-555

Ledes, Allison Eckardt. "Current and Coming: Winslow Homer and the Civil War." The Magazine Antiques 134 (August 1988): 216-230. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 216

Cikovsky, Nicolai. " Winslow Homer's Unfinished Business." In American Art Around 1900: Lectures in Memory of Daniel Fraad, Doreen Bolger, and Nicolai Cikovsky, eds., 93-117. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990. Mentioned: P. 98, fig. 12; Reproduced: P. 100, fig.12

Cikovsky, Nicolai. Winslow Homer. New York: Abrams,1990. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21

Jennings, Kate F. Winslow Homer. New York, N.Y.: Crescent Books, 1990. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 19-20

Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1991. Reproduced: P. 130

Cikovsky, Nicolai. Winslow Homer. [New York, N.Y.]: [Rizzoli], 1992. Reproduced: Pl. 1

Sears, Stephen W. The Civil War: A Treasury of Art and Literature. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1992. Reproduced: P. 145, pl. 40

Cikovsky, Nicolai. "Winslow Homer." Portraits: The Lives and Works of Eminent Artists 1, no.6. Reproduced: Cover

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 106

Cikovsky, Nicolai. "The School of War." In Winslow Homer, Nicolai Cikovsky and Franklin Kelly, 17-60. Washington: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press,1995. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 42-43, no. 3

Conrads, Margaret C. Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 14, fig. 4

Mitchell, Mark D. Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light. New York, N.Y.: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2002. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22, fig. 7

Jennings, Kate F. Winslow Homer. North Dighton, Mass: JG Press/World Publications Group, 2004. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 19-20

Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 96-97

Stebbins, Theodore E. American Paintings at Harvard. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Art Museums; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 148

"Welcome Back." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 48, no. 5 (May/June 2008): 5-6. Mentioned: P. 6

Harvey, Eleanor Jones. The Civil War and American Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum; New Haven, Connecticut: in association with Yale University Press, 2012. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 154-155, no. 53

Exhibition history

New York, Dodworth's Studio Building, Fourth Artists' Reception (before 25 March 1864); see Winslow Homer: The Paintings of the Civil War p. 21.

New York, National Academy of Design, Thirty-ninth Annual Exhibition (April, 1864), no. 140, listed p. 451.

Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer (16 November-17 December 1944), no. 2.

Oxford, OH, Miami University, Sesquicentennial Celebration (15 May-15 June 1959).

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Civil War: The Artists' Record (18 November-31 December 1961); traveled to Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts (1 February-4 March 1962); pp. 63-64, illus. no. 46, p. 66.

San Fransisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco, Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War (2 July-18 September 1988); traveled to Portland, Portland Museum of Art (8 October-18 December 1988); cat. no. 8, fig. 8.1, pp. 166-172; also included references to CMA painting pp. 21, 72-73, 111-112, 115, 119, 161, 195-196, 208-215, 236.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer (15 October 1995-28 January 1996); traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (21 February-26 May 1996); New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (20 June-22 September 1996); illus. no. 3, pg. 43.

Exhibition of the Month: Atmospheric Depth in Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 31, 1947).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

The Civil War: The Artists' Record. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 18-December 31, 1961); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 1-March 4, 1962).

Winslow Homer: Portrait of America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 10, 1965-May 16, 1966).

Winslow Homer. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 15, 1995-January 28, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 21-May 26, 1996).

The Civil War and American Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (organizer) (November 16, 2012-April 27, 2013); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 21-September 2, 2013).

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