A watercolor by Winslow Homer representing Fishing Boats, Key West, and painted doubtless during the winter of 1903 and 1904 which Homer spent at Key West, has just been loaned to the Fogg Art Museum.

So much that there is little time left to share with a wife," Beam wrote in Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck (1966). The truth, it seems, remains as stubbornly elusive as the artist himself.