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Artist: Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)
Nationality: American
Movement: American School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Winslow Homer was trained as a lithographer in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. During the American Civil War, he served as a sketch artist for the Union army, providing Harper’s Weekly with battle images for their publication. He also began painting during this time, producing the two large pieces Home Sweet Home and Prisoners from the Front. After painting in the nautical genre in Tynemouth, England from 1881 to 1883, Homer returned to the United States to continue in the genre on the coast of Maine.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Winslow Homer, Backgammon, 1877
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Winslow Homer, The Bright Side, after Winslow Homer"s painting of 1865 (1979.7.56), published in the magazine Our Young Folks, July, 1866, p. 396, 1866
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Winslow Homer, Eight Bells, 1887
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Winslow Homer, The Bathers, 1873
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Winslow Homer, The Nooning, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Dad"s Coming, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Burnt Mountain, 1892
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Winslow Homer, Yachting Girl, 1880
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Winslow Homer, A Swell of the Ocean, 1883
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Winslow Homer, A "Norther", Key West, 1886
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Winslow Homer, Cutting a Figure, 1871
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Winslow Homer, The Morning Bell, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Chinese In New York, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Gloucester Harbour, 1873
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Winslow Homer, The Noon Recess, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Clam Bake, 1873
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Winslow Homer, The Bright Side, 1865
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Winslow Homer, Gathering Berries, 1874
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Winslow Homer, See-Saw, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Last Days of Harvest, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Waiting for a Bite, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Sunrise, Fishing in the Adirondacks, 1892
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Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Ship Building, Gloucester, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Station House Lodgers, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains, 1872
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Winslow Homer, Wreck of the Atlantic- Cast Up by the Sea, 1873
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Winslow Homer, Camping out in the Adirondack Mountains, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Flirting on the Seashore and on the Meadow, 1874
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Winslow Homer, A Little More Yarn (Fisher Girl Knitting), 1884
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Winslow Homer, Homeward Bound, 19th - 20th century
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Winslow Homer, Portrait of Albert Post, circa 1864
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Winslow Homer, Raid on a Sand-Swallow Colony - How Many Eggs?, 1874
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Winslow Homer, On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children"s Hour, 1874
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Winslow Homer, The War for the Union 1862 - A Bayonet Charge, 19th - 20th century
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Winslow Homer, The War for the Union 1862 - A Cavalry Charge, 19th - 20th century
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Winslow Homer, New York Charities - St. Barnabas House, 304 Mulberry Street, 1874
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Winslow Homer, Fire Watch Tower,Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York., 1874
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Winslow Homer Title: The Conch Divers Date: 1885 Medium: watercolor on paper Dimensions: H.13-15/16
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Prisoners from the Front, 1866 Winslow Homer (1836-1910)AmericanOil on canvas; 24 x 38 in. (61.0

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in th 1870s
One of the most visible artists in New York City, Homer exhibited frequently at national and international venues including the National Academy of Design and the American Society of Painters in Water Color, and at prestigious private cl...

Reynolda House, Museum of American Art: Winslow Homer Exhibition

All the prints on loan for the exhibit are from the collections of the Duke University Museum of Art. Paintings will be on loan from a private collector, the Museu...
Columbia Museum of Art:
Winslow Homer: The Civil War Years and Winslow Homer: The Gloucester Years (Focus Gallery 3)
Newspaper illustrations at the time were using an improved method of woodblock reproduction know as wood engraving. Using the end grain of boxwood, the illustrator could draw finer line...

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Winslow Homer: Works on Paper
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Museum of Fine Arts: Winslow Homer Graphics
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Columbia Museum of Art: Masters of the American Watercolor
A celebrated portraitist in the medium of oil, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) adopted watercolor as his preferred painting medium while traveling throughout Europe and America in the first years of the twentieth century. Two of the works feature...

Brooklyn Museum of Art: Winslow Homer: Illustrating America
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Hudson River Museum: American Outdoors: Seasonal Prints By Winslow Homer
The most accomplished of Homer's later wood engravings, such as Snap the Whip (1873), relate to his paintings. Having established his reputation, he could contribute themes of his OWl} choosing, and he favored middle class leisure activitie...

Jewish Federation/ Bell Family Gallery: Art and Artifice: Photographic Portraits by Strauss-Peyton
From the turn of the 20th century through the Roaring 20's, Strauss-Peyton's innovative techniques and dramatic results found favor with both world leaders and fashionable trend-setters. The most famous celebrities of that era, including Fanny Br...

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: American Watercolors
The exhibition ranges from John James Audubon to Brice Marden and includes such masters of the watercolor as ...

Detroit Institute of Art: Last Chance! Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians
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Addison Gallery of American Art: Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection
These genre works, ranging from formal family portraits, to informal scenes of workers in the landscape, to popular prints produced for publications and mass distribution, represent artists such as Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Enoch W...

National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...

Amon Carter Museum: Celebrating America: Masterworks from Texas Collections
This group of paintings, sculptures, watercolors and photographs celebrates the achievements of those collectors in Texas whose holdings reflect the essential nature of our country’s character. From a pair of 18th-century portraits by John Singlet...

National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The origins of the Metropolitan's collection of American works on paper can be traced to the 1880s—the decade after the Museum was founded. Now numbering more than 1,500 ...

Hudson River Museum: Living with Landscapes: Paintings from Private Collections

Among the paintings in Living with Landscapes is Homer Dodge Martin's oil painting A Wilderness Pool, a classic Hudson River School scene that shows Martin's interest in the dramatic elements of wilderness scenery. The work's vertical format empha...
Brooklyn Coalition of Artists in Park Slope: Bernie Springsteele - The Old City in Watercolor
His paintings are distinctive in their ability to effectively capture the emotional essence of the place with a thorough, yet not overstated, representation of light and shadow, bringing resonance similar to the work of Winslow Homer and Edwar...

Everson Museum: Central New York Selects
Participants were allowed to choose from all media including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and ceramics, but were limited to works of art that were not currently displa...

University of Virginia Art Museum: A Jefferson Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts
This special exhibition features major examples of 18th- and 19th-century American painting and furniture, including works by Albert Bierstadt, John Singleton Copley, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart ...

Portland Museum of Art: Rediscovering Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott
British by birth, Samuel Triscott emigrated to the United States in 1871 and settled in Massachusetts where he supported himself as an engineer while spending all of his free time painting. Around 1880, he took a studio in Boston where he was able...

Rip Squeak: New Limited Editions and New Book Released
Many of the limited editions originated with the ongoing series of children’s books, Rip Squeak and His Friends and the newly released Rip Squeak and His Friends Discover THE TREASURE, written by Susan Yost-Filgate and illustrated by Leonard Filga...

Mountclair Art Museum: Paris 1900: The American School at the Universal Exposition
Works of art exhibited in Paris have been lent by museums across the United States and Europe, including Whistler's Symphony in White No. 2 from the Tate Gallery ...

Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...

National Gallery of Art: FROM REMBRANDT TO RUBENS AND MONET TO MATISSE, EXHIBITION PRESENTS ACQUISITIONS OF THE LAST DECADE AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The exhibition is made possible by Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications. The Foundation is also funding the development of a ...

Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...

Australian Center for Photography: 30th Anniversary Exhibition: ZEITGEIST - the spirit of the times as an indication of the future
The work in this exhibition is diverse. Rachael Cassells spent two years in East New York documenting the lives of a group of young men who have grown up in a culture of violence, often battling alcoholism, crack addiction, gun violence, police br...

American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...

Westmoreland Museum of American Art: First Juried Biennial: Curated by Ingrid Schaffner
Featured artists: Virginia Steele Ankney, Paul Binai, Leslie Calhoun, Marie Mawe Charpentier, Ron Donoughe, John Dorinsky, Betty Elias, John A. Fobes, L’Ox Formidable, Fran V. Galamas, Patty Gallagher, Melinda Myers Grass, Greg Hricenak, Doug Kins...

National Gallery of Art: MASTERWORKS HONORS PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY OF GIFTS TO THE NATION; INCLUDES 14 RARE DEGAS WAXES
This exhibition honors Paul Mellon, whose generosity and service to the nation are unsurpassed, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. The full breadth of Mr. Mellons gifts ...

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