Keywords: Winslow Homer - Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) - Google Art Project.jpg Google Art Project Q4960357 Creator Winslow Homer cm 61 5 97 West Main Floor Gallery 68 Purchased from the artist by Charles Stewart Smith 1832 1909 New York by 1878;<ref>Smith's son believed that his father purchased the painting directly from the artist per his letter of 31 October 1947 in NGA curatorial files However Charles Smith may instead have purchased the painting at auction in early 1877 Gerdts in Lloyd Goodrich edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts Record of Works by Winslow Homer New York 2005 2 no 596 writes that according to the New York Commercial Advertiser 27 February 1877 the artist sent the painting to be included in an exhibition at Kurtz Gallery New York that was to be followed by the works being auctioned under the direction of Daniel A Mathews on 1 and 2 March 1877 The New York Herald announced 3 March 1877 that the painting sold for one of the highest prices realized at the auction </ref> by inheritance to his son Howard Caswell Smith Oyster Bay New York; sold 1943 to Wildenstein Co New York ; purchased 31 December 1943 by NGA reflist Gift of the W L and May T Mellon Foundation Breezing Up A Fair Wind by Winslow Homer 1873-76 png Breezing Up-Winslow Homer jpg Winslow Homer 003 jpg Massachusetts Boston 1836 Maine Prout's Neck 1910 Winslow male 716708 Homer American 1836 - 1910 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/breezing-up-a-fair-wind-winslow-homer/714771/ 30228 Winslow Homer artist /artist/winslow-homer/4130116/ 4130116 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/ National Gallery of Art Washington DC 507112 http //www nga gov/ 1/25/2012 9 59 08 PM /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/breezing-up-a-fair-wind-winslow-homer/714771/ 1873 1873 American genre amusement oil on canvas Purchased from the artist by Charles Stewart Smith 1832 1909 New York by 1878;1 by inheritance to his son Howard Caswell Smith Oyster Bay New York; sold 1943 to Wildenstein Co New York ; purchased 31 December 1943 by NGA 1 Smith's son believed that his father purchased the painting directly from the artist per his letter of 31 October 1947 in NGA curatorial files However Charles Smith may instead have purchased the painting at auction in early 1877 Gerdts in Lloyd Goodrich edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts <i>Record of Works by Winslow Homer</i> New York 2005 2 no 596 writes that according to the <i>New York Commercial Advertiser</i> 27 February 1877 the artist sent the painting to be included in an exhibition at Kurtz Gallery New York that was to be followed by the works being auctioned under the direction of Daniel A Mathews on 1 and 2 March 1877 The <i>New York Herald</i> announced 3 March 1877 that the painting sold for one of the highest prices realized at the auction 615 714771 False 1876 1876 overall 3/24/2012 9 03 55 AM 1943 13 1 http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f object 30228 National Gallery of Art Washington DC Gift of the W L and May T Mellon Foundation Painting 1870 1880 w970 x h615 cm 1873 - 1876 False 1 59006211180124 Object breezing-up-a-fair-wind-winslow-homer Breezing Up A Fair Wind b 970 oil on canvas Purchased from the artist by Charles Stewart Smith 1832 1909 New York by 1878;1 by inheritance to his son Howard Caswell Smith Oyster Bay New York; sold 1943 to Wildenstein Co New York ; purchased 31 December 1943 by NGA 1 Smith's son believed that his father purchased the painting directly from the artist per his letter of 31 October 1947 in NGA curatorial files However Charles Smith may instead have purchased the painting at auction in early 1877 Gerdts in Lloyd Goodrich edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts <i>Record of Works by Winslow Homer</i> New York 2005 2 no 596 writes that according to the <i>New York Commercial Advertiser</i> 27 February 1877 the artist sent the painting to be included in an exhibition at Kurtz Gallery New York that was to be followed by the works being auctioned under the direction of Daniel A Mathews on 1 and 2 March 1877 The <i>New York Herald</i> announced 3 March 1877 that the painting sold for one of the highest prices realized at the auction American genre amusement special url_id OgHYzsaNTlFiWQ PD-old-100-1923 1910 Google Art Project works by Winslow Homer PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Homer Winslow; Breezing Up 1873; NGA 02 Oil paintings by Winslow Homer 1870s paintings by Winslow Homer 1873 Breezing up NGA 02 Paintings by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art Paintings of sailboats 1873 paintings Wind in paintings |