Download image:
Winslow Homer
1836-1910
Caricature of Albert Warren Kelsey (b. 1840)
Pen and black ink on cream colored wove paper.
10 7/8 x 9 inches (270 x 228 mm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Powis Jones.
1983.71
Notes:
Watermark: none.
Inscription:
Inscribed by the artist in pen and black ink at upper right on signpost within design, "Turks Island"; by another hand in dark brown ink, at lower edge, "Caricature of A.W.K. by Winslow Homer / Grand Turks Island 1868---",
Provenance:
Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, Mass.; Eugene Delafield, New York; from whom purchased in 1954 by Edward Powis Jones.
Associated names:
Jones, Edward Powis, 1919-1998, former owner.
Jones, Edward Powis, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 264.
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, 72-73, fig. 101, repr.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
School:
Century:
Classification:
Department: