Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 06.1282
Date:
1901
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Hendricks, Gordon, "The Life and Work of Winslow Homer," New York: Abrams, 1979.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 490.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 232.
"Survey of American Paintings," Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 168.
Image on file.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 493.
Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 384.
(Lower right:) W. HOMER signed
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Summary:
View of the cannon parapet of Morro Castle, the late sixteenth-century fort built by the Spanish at the entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The old watchtower is on the left and the cannons, still aimed out at the harbor, are lined up on the right. The moon and a beam of light from the harbor searchlight are visible against the sky.
