In his later years, he was a loner, the archetypal Yankee salt in his cottage on the Maine coast, though the truth is that Homer was always too diverse and complicated to be slotted into any of ...

The painter Winslow Homer was a man of few words. He kept no journals. He burned most of his correspondence. He also never married, ensuring that no heirs would survive to recount the details of ...

Winslow Homer, Nassau (1899). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910 (10.228.4). Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

In 1866 he set sail for Paris where two of his war paintings were included in the Exposition Universelle. Also on show was The Gleaners 1857 by Jean-Francois Millet, which must have inspired Homer’s ...

T he best-known paintings of Winslow Homer are those of the blistering Caribbean sun, of angry seas, and of the ruggedness of Maine, where he lived out the last years of his life as a virtual ...

Claudia Roth Pierpont writes about Winslow Homer, in light of a new biography, William R. Cross’s “Winslow Homer: American Passage,” and an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

The art of the famously reticent New England painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) has often been studied through the lens of American history and criticism. Famed for his thunderous seascapes and ...

A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day. By Bonnie Eissner Documenting the ...