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WINSLOW HOMER Two pencil coastal views of Bermuda.
Both pencil on cream wove paper, on the rear free end pages of The Bermuda Pocket Almanac, 1899. Both approximately 170x110 mm; 6 3/4x4 1/2 inches (one with torn, uneven left edge). Inscribed "Tel call 294/Swan" by Homer in pencil on the front printed paper cover.
Ex-collection the artist, Prouts Neck, Maine; likely acquired from Charles Lowell Homer, the artist's nephew, with other works from the artist's personal library by Margaret Woodbury Strong, Rochester, New York.
Published in Tatham, "Winslow Homer's Library," American Art Journal, 1977, volume IX, number 1, pages 92-98 (both drawings illustrated).
Homer's front cover inscription refers to Mrs. Rebecca Swan's Country Boarding House at Scaur Hill, Somerset, Bermuda, where he may have stayed during his visit to the island in 1899.
Property of The Strong, Rochester, NY, sold to benefit the museum's collections fund.
