Keywords: The Dinner Horn (Blowing the Horn at Seaside), by Winslow Homer, 1870.png Artwork Creator Winslow Homer 1870 oil canvas cm 48 9 34 9 institution National Gallery of Art Not on View http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f acc 1994 59 2 National Gallery of Art Washington DC object history Given by the artist to Charles Collins New York state;<ref>This provenance was given for the painting in the 1981 sale catalogue However The New York Times of 26 February 1871 reporting on the exhibition and sale at the Somerville Gallery on 23 February lists a painting by Winslow Homer titled Dinner Horn as having sold for 150 to an unnamed buyer This was probably the National Gallery painting and Charles Collins was possibly the buyer </ref> by descent in the Collins family to Virginia Collins Cronister Mrs Hugh M Cronister Cambridge Vermont;<ref>The provenance for the painting given in Lloyd Goodrich edited and expanded by Abigail Booth Gerdts Record of Works by Winslow Homer New York 2005 2 no 368 details the Collins family members who owned the painting Charles Collins' niece Mrs Maria Collins Barton Summit New Jersey; her niece Mrs Sarah Louise Collins Davis Florida by 1974; her niece Mrs Cronister by 1980 </ref> sale Sotheby Parke Bernet New York 23 April 1981 no 50 bought in ; Nicholas Hubby Boston ; Richard A Manoogian Grosse Point Michigan; Vose Galleries Boston ; sold May 1985 to Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon Upperville Virginia; gift 1994 to NGA reflist credit line Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon lower left WINSLOW HOMER 1870 accession number 1994 59 2 National Gallery of Art Washington DC PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Winslow Homer - The Dinner Horn Oil paintings by Winslow Homer 1870s paintings by Winslow Homer Paintings by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art 1870s portrait paintings Portrait paintings of women Temporary for Cat-a-lot - Female humans Nape Standing People and wind Colorful background Females watching in art Cambridge Vermont |