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Winslow Homer's Oil Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919), was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations. 

"By about 1890, however, Homer left narrative behind to concentrate on the beauty, force, and drama of the sea itself. In their dynamic compositions and richly textured passages, his late seascapes capture the look and feel (and even suggest the sound) of masses of onrushing and receding water. For Homer's contemporaries, these were the most extravagantly admired of all his works. They remain among his most famous today, appreciated for their virtuoso brushwork, depth of feeling, and hints of modernist abstraction."
H. Barbara Weinberg
Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art



"In the mid-1890s, Homer began a series of paintings showing only water, coast, and sky. Prouts Neck, Maine, was one of the most frequently represented sites in these works. This painting was sold by Homer to Thomas B. Clarke in 1895. In 1899, the painting was returned to the artist and he reworked it by eliminating the two men who were once on the rocks at the left, and by altering the intensity of the form."
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"Northeaster" (1895; reworked by 1901)
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 87.6 x 127 cm; 34 1/2 x 50 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910
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"Northeaster" (1895; reworked by 1901) [Detail]
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 87.6 x 127 cm; 34 1/2 x 50 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910
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"Northeaster" (1895; reworked by 1901) [Detail]
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 87.6 x 127 cm; 34 1/2 x 50 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910
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Click on the link below to see a Video edited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

VIDEO: SEA CHANGE by H. Barbara Weinberg, H. Barbara Weinberg: Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum since 1990 - "Northeaster" (1895; reworked by 1901)

"Main coast" (1896)
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 76.2 x 101.6 cm; 30 x 40 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911
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"Moonlight, wood island light" (1894)
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 78.1 x 102.2 cm; 30 3/4 x 40 1/4 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911
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"Cannon rock" (1895)
By Winslow Homer, from Boston, Massachusetts, US (1836 - 1919)
- oil on canvas; 101.6 x 101.6 cm: 40 x 40 in -
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of George A. Hearn, 1906
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