This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict across his career
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is one of the core figures of 19th-century American art. While most well-known for his oil paintings of Civil War scenes and the windswept Atlantic coastline, Homer's...
This handsome volume provides a comprehensive look at Homer’s technical and artistic practice as a watercolorist, and at the experiences that shaped his remarkable development.
Edward King, The Great South (repr.; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972), 393. Jackson was employed by the Detroit Photographic Company, a photographic publishing firm established in the late 1890s.
Far from being “ sporting ” art or a record of play , his Adirondack oils and watercolors constitute a highly original ... for Anglers ” in her and Sarah Burns ' Winslow Homer : Artist and Angler ( Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and ...
American painter Winslow Homer talks about his life and work as if entertaining the reader for the weekend. Includes reproductions of the artist's works and a list of museums where they are on display.
"A Great Painter of the Ocean." Current Literature (New York), July 1908. Hagen, Oskar. The Birth of the American Tradition in Art. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hartley, Marsden.
Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer's raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art....
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
Sketches, drawings, and paintings by the self-taught artist who is considered one of the foremost painters in nineteenth century America.
To point out that the "hunter" in this splendid watercolor holds what seems to be a beaver, or a small animal of the sort being held aloft in Homers "Trapping in the Adirondacks," published in Every Saturday on 24 December 1870, ...