A Basket of Clams  1873

Watercolor on wove paper, 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (29.2 x 24.8 cm) [br] The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of Arthur G. Altschul, 1995 Label: In June 1873 Homer went to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he painted his first watercolors, depictions of the local children playing in dories, sitting on the wharves, helping with chores, or simply preoccupied by their own youth...