BIOGRAPHY
A painter, illustrator, and etcher, Winslow Homer was one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists (the other being Thomas Eakins). Homer is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the USA and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an artist of power and individuality whose images are (Romantic) metaphors for the relationship of Man and Nature. A careful observer of visual reality, he was at the same time alive to the purely physical properties of pigment and color, of line and form, and of the patterns they create. His work is characterized by bold, fluid brushwork, strong composition, and particularly by a lack of sentimentality.
A painter, illustrator, and etcher, Winslow Homer was one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists (the other being Thomas Eakins). Homer is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the USA and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an artist of power and individuality whose images are (Romantic) metaphors for the relationship of Man and Nature. A careful observer of visual reality, he was at the same time alive to the purely physical properties of pigment and color, of line and form, and of the patterns they create. His work is characterized by bold, fluid brushwork, strong composition, and particularly by a lack of sentimentality.
RESOURCES
1. Homer's Bobbin Girl and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
2. Homer's Tented Field and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
3. The Gulf Stream and Joyce Carol Oates
4. High Cliff, Coast of Maine and Jean Toomer
5. Works of art by Winslow Homer in the Crystal Bridges Museum main collection:
The Return of the Gleaner ; Mackerel Fishing ; On the Hill ; Guide Hiding a Canoe Under a Windfall ; On the Beach, Tynemouth ; Spring ; Army Teamsters ; Girl in a Sunbonnet
From the portfolio Campaign Sketches: The Letter for Home ; Foraging ; A Pass Time: Cavalry Rest ; Our Jolly Cook ; The Coffee Call ; The Baggage Train
From Life in Camp Part 1: Building Castles ; A Shell Incoming; An Unwelcome Visit; Hard Tack; Late for Roll Call ; Riding on a Rail ; Stuck in the Mud ; Surgeon's Call ; The Guard House ; Tossing in a Blanket ; Upset his Coffee ; Water Call
From Life in Camp Part 2: Deserter ; Drummer ; Extra Ration ; Good Bye ; Home on a Furlough ; In the Trenches ; Our Special ; Teamster ; The Field Barber ; The Girl He Left Behind Him ; The Rifle Pit ; Fording
1. Homer's Bobbin Girl and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
2. Homer's Tented Field and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
3. The Gulf Stream and Joyce Carol Oates
4. High Cliff, Coast of Maine and Jean Toomer
5. Works of art by Winslow Homer in the Crystal Bridges Museum main collection:
The Return of the Gleaner ; Mackerel Fishing ; On the Hill ; Guide Hiding a Canoe Under a Windfall ; On the Beach, Tynemouth ; Spring ; Army Teamsters ; Girl in a Sunbonnet
From the portfolio Campaign Sketches: The Letter for Home ; Foraging ; A Pass Time: Cavalry Rest ; Our Jolly Cook ; The Coffee Call ; The Baggage Train
From Life in Camp Part 1: Building Castles ; A Shell Incoming; An Unwelcome Visit; Hard Tack; Late for Roll Call ; Riding on a Rail ; Stuck in the Mud ; Surgeon's Call ; The Guard House ; Tossing in a Blanket ; Upset his Coffee ; Water Call
From Life in Camp Part 2: Deserter ; Drummer ; Extra Ration ; Good Bye ; Home on a Furlough ; In the Trenches ; Our Special ; Teamster ; The Field Barber ; The Girl He Left Behind Him ; The Rifle Pit ; Fording
REFERENCES
Biography adapted from Helen A. Cooper. "Homer, Winslow." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. <http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T038730>.
Artwork behind title: Winslow Homer's Mackerel Fishing (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum
Biography adapted from Helen A. Cooper. "Homer, Winslow." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. <http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T038730>.
Artwork behind title: Winslow Homer's Mackerel Fishing (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum
