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The Prouts Neck Yacht Club (PNYC) is located on the southwestern corner of the peninsula, also known as Western Point. The club conducts sailing classes for children from age 6-17 as well as classes for adults. The club operates moorings for both powerboats and sailboats. The club owns a fleet of 420s, a fleet of Prams, a few Optimists and a ...
Winslow Homer. 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.
The Winslow Homer Studio is the historic studio and home of the artist Winslow Homer, which is located on what is now Winslow Homer Road on Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine. Maine architect John Calvin Stevens altered and expanded an existing carriage house to suit Homer's needs in 1884, even moving the building 100 feet for added privacy from ...
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 ...
Maine’s rugged coastline inspired Winslow Homer, the landscape artist who painted many of his best watercolors from a seaside studio in Prouts Neck, some 10 miles south of Portland.
Prouts Neck, Maine Considered one of America's most accomplished painters, Winslow Homer made his home and painted many of his marine landscapes on the Atlantic coast town of Prouts Neck, Maine. ...
The Fox Hunt. (painting) Winslow Homer. The Fox Hunt, 1893. Oil on canvas, 96.5 × 174 cm (38 × 68½ in). Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Fox Hunt is an 1893 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a fox running in deep snow, menaced by hungry crows. His largest single work, it has been described as ...
Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with The Herring Net and The Fog Warning, painted in the same year, it depicts the hard lives of North Atlantic fishermen in Prouts Neck, Maine. [1] The painting was bought in 1998 by Bill Gates, then ...