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Winslow Homer’s prints, around 100 of which are now showing at the Nassau County Museum of Art, reflect scenes of everyday 19th-century American life. By Benjamin Genocchio ...
American artist Winslow Homer is best known for his dramatic seascape paintings of fisherman and rescuers battling harsh maritime elements. But an expansive new show at New York’s Metropolitan ...
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 ...
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 ...
While Homer’s successful paintings can be glorious, the watercolours and less flamboyant oils are the main treat here. In 1883 he moved into a studio overlooking the sea at Prouts Neck, Maine and ...
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 ...
The women were the second incarnation of the so-called "petticoat governments," a tongue-in-cheek title given to all-female government bodies. The first all-female government was elected in ...
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 ...
Few outside his native USA will be familiar with the artist Winslow Homer, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Our national collection contains not a single “significant painting” of ...