The Sloop Catherine, 1927
14¼ x 20½ inches (sight size)
Signed and dated lower right: John Whorf ‘27
Provenance
Grace Horne Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1928
Closson Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio
Helen H. Berne, Palm Beach, Florida
Estate of above
Sale, Bonhams, New York, New York, August 8, 2024, lot 94, from above
Exhibited
Boston Society of Water Color Painters Exhibition, 1928
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, The Eighth International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Miniatures, March 29–May 6, 1928
Literature
Peter Hastings Falk and Andrea Ansell Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago: 1888–1950 (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1990), 952, no. 357.
Raymond L. Wilson, Index of American Watercolor Exhibitions 1900–1945 (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1994), 289.
Related Works
The White Schooner, 1926, watercolor and pencil on paper, 16¾ x 22⅞ inches, signed and dated lower right; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Reflections, 1927, watercolor on paper, 16⅝ x 22⅜ inches; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sail Boats, ca 1923–35, watercolor on paper, 14⅛ x 21⅛ inches, signed lower left; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts