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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
Eight Bells was the outgrowth of a series of oil paintings that Homer made using three wooden panels he found in the cabin of his brother's sloop at Prouts Neck, Maine.On two of the panels Homer painted scenes of mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired Eight Bells, which depicted a ship's officer ...
Snap the Whip is an 1872 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts a group of children playing crack the whip in a field in front of a small red schoolhouse. With more of America's population moving to cities, the portrait depicts the simplicity of rural agrarian life that Americans were beginning to leave behind in the ...
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
"The War — Making Havelocks for the Volunteers", Winslow Homer, Harper's Weekly, Volume V, June 29, 1861 Winslow Homer in 1857. Artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) has been called America's greatest painter. [12] He was the son of William Flagg Homer's youngest brother Charles Savage Homer (1809–1898). [13]
She writes, "In reality, the offshore wave would break only at low tide, but the wave fills the inlet only at high tide." In his Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed, Homer expert Philip Beam noted the artist's rearranging of the horizontal ledges of rock into a triangular shape so that "it rivets attention on his main motive". [1]
that artist Winslow Homer never lived in Homer House (pictured)?--GRuban 14:10, 3 August 2024 (UTC) Just a comment on ALT2: he also never lived in my house either. Perhaps the hook could use some clarification of why it should be automatically connected to Winslow, despite his never having lived in it. Dahn 18:47, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
Not all of Homer's sea pictures are so benevolent as Breezing Up: he portrayed waves crashing ashore as did Courbet (see for example The Wave, c. 1869). Monet's relatively early paintings Seascape: Storm (1867) and The Green Wave (1866) show boats on somewhat turbulent seas. The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer, 1899.