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The Herring Net
Art Institute of Chicago
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The Herring Net

1885
Winslow Homer visual detail
ArtistWinslow Homer
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $20,000 Dealer sale · Nov 11, 1915
+60.0% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1915 · $12,5001915 · $20,000
$13K1915
$20K1915
Last known price$20,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$16,250
Observed sales2
Artist index—
1915-11-11Dealer sale$20,000.00
1915-10-01Dealer purchase$12,500.00
Artist index unavailableInsufficient qualifying evidence; no synthetic curve is published.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Sketch of a Cottage Yard
1876 · oil on academy board
1961-05-03—$6,750.0050%
Rocky Coast (Maine Coast)
1880 · oil paint, canvas
1945-01-01—$12,000.0049%
Rocky Coast (Maine Coast)
1880 · oil paint, canvas
1944-02-01—$2,500.0049%
Long Branch, New Jersey
1869 · oil paint, canvas
1941-09-13—$2,800.0045%
Portrait of Pauline
1867 · oil paint, canvas
1961-12-06—$10,500.0045%
Portrait of Pauline
1867 · oil paint, canvas
1959-09-25—$3,000.0045%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
Charles W. Gould, New York, by 1908 to 1915

Charles W. Gould, New York, by 1908 to 1915

M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1915

M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1915

sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, 1915

sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, 1915

by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [<em>Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932</em>, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]

by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [<em>Last Will and Testa...

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Source provenance text

Charles W. Gould, New York, by 1908 to 1915; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1915; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, 1915; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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Exhibitions

Public
Source exhibition text

New York, National Academy of Design, Autumn Exhibition, Nov. 23–Dec. 19, 1885, no. 395. Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893. Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, 1908, as Banks Fishermen. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Feb. 6–Mar. 19, 1911, no. 6, as Banks Fishermen. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of R. F. Angell, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Cresmer, Mr. and Mrs. Max Epstein, Martin A. Ryerson, June 1–Oct. 1, 1923. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Homer, Ryder, and Eakins, May 6–June 4, 1930, cat. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. New York, Knoedler Galleries, To Honor Henry McBride, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Water Colours, Nov. 29–Dec. 17, 1949, no. 1, as Banks Fishermen or The Herring Net. Milwaukee, Marquette University, Festival of the American Arts, Apr. 22–May 3, 1956, no. 38. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. NY, Brooklyn Museum, The Triumph of Realism, Oct. 3–Nov. 19, 1967, cat.; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 11, 1967–Jan. 4, 1968; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Feb. 17–Mar. 31, 1968. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer, Oct. 15, 1995–Jan. 28, 1996, cat.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Feb. 21–May 26, 1996; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 17–Sept. 22, 1996.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

<p>Long inspired by the sea, Winslow Homer spent time in 1881 in a fishing community in Tynemouth, England. The experience fundamentally changed his life and work. His paintings thereafter focused almost exclusively on humankind’s age-old contest with nature. In <em>The Herring Net</em>, executed in Prouts Neck, Maine, Homer depicted the heroic efforts of fishermen at their daily work. In a small dory, one figure hauls in glistening herring, while the other, possibly a boy, unloads the catch. Laboring far from the schooners on the horizon, the pair strives to steady the precarious boat as it rides the incoming swells.</p>

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 6 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 12 structured exhibitions.

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