TEACHING POETRY & AMERICAN ART

  • Introduction
    • Why Poetry and American Art?
    • Strategies
    • Disclaimer
    • About Me
  • Romanticism
    • Intro to American Romanticism (1820-1900)
    • John James Audubon
    • Thomas Cole
    • Asher Durand
    • Daniel Chester French
    • Winslow Homer
    • Albert Pinkham Ryder
    • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
    • "Illuminated Gems of Sacred Poetry"
    • "Indian Summer: Autumn Poems and Sketches"
  • Realism / Social Realism
    • Realism >
      • Intro to Realism (1900-1920)
      • George Bellows
      • Edwin Dawes
      • Thomas Eakins
      • Edward Hopper
      • Thomas Hovenden
      • John Sloan
    • Social Realism >
      • Intro to Social Realism (1920-1940)
      • Walker Evans
      • Dorothea Lange
      • Ben Shahn
  • Regionalism
    • Intro to Regionalism (1920-1940)
    • Thomas Hart Benton
    • Maynard Dixon
    • Grant Wood
  • Modernism
    • Intro to Modernism (1910-1940)
    • Stuart Davis
    • Charles Demuth
    • Marsden Hartley
    • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Harlem Renaissance
    • Intro to Harlem Renaissance (1920-1940)
    • Aaron Douglas
    • Meta Warrick Fuller
    • Jacob Lawrence
    • Faith Ringgold
    • Carl Van Vechten
    • Hale Woodruff
  • Abstract Expressionism
    • Intro to Abstract Expressionism / New York School (1940-1960)
    • Morris Graves
    • Red Grooms
    • Philip Guston
    • Grace Hartigan
    • Kenneth Patchen
    • Dorothea Tanning
    • Walasse Ting
    • Cy Twombly
  • Postmodern/Contemporary
    • Intro to Postmodern / Contemporary Art (1950-present)
    • Visual Poetry
    • Louise Bourgeois
    • Joseph Goldyne
    • Elizabeth Murray
    • Jeff Schlanger
    • Kiki Smith
    • Jaune Q. Smith
  • More Resources
  • Introduction
    • Why Poetry and American Art?
    • Strategies
    • Disclaimer
    • About Me
  • Romanticism
    • Intro to American Romanticism (1820-1900)
    • John James Audubon
    • Thomas Cole
    • Asher Durand
    • Daniel Chester French
    • Winslow Homer
    • Albert Pinkham Ryder
    • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
    • "Illuminated Gems of Sacred Poetry"
    • "Indian Summer: Autumn Poems and Sketches"
  • Realism / Social Realism
    • Realism >
      • Intro to Realism (1900-1920)
      • George Bellows
      • Edwin Dawes
      • Thomas Eakins
      • Edward Hopper
      • Thomas Hovenden
      • John Sloan
    • Social Realism >
      • Intro to Social Realism (1920-1940)
      • Walker Evans
      • Dorothea Lange
      • Ben Shahn
  • Regionalism
    • Intro to Regionalism (1920-1940)
    • Thomas Hart Benton
    • Maynard Dixon
    • Grant Wood
  • Modernism
    • Intro to Modernism (1910-1940)
    • Stuart Davis
    • Charles Demuth
    • Marsden Hartley
    • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Harlem Renaissance
    • Intro to Harlem Renaissance (1920-1940)
    • Aaron Douglas
    • Meta Warrick Fuller
    • Jacob Lawrence
    • Faith Ringgold
    • Carl Van Vechten
    • Hale Woodruff
  • Abstract Expressionism
    • Intro to Abstract Expressionism / New York School (1940-1960)
    • Morris Graves
    • Red Grooms
    • Philip Guston
    • Grace Hartigan
    • Kenneth Patchen
    • Dorothea Tanning
    • Walasse Ting
    • Cy Twombly
  • Postmodern/Contemporary
    • Intro to Postmodern / Contemporary Art (1950-present)
    • Visual Poetry
    • Louise Bourgeois
    • Joseph Goldyne
    • Elizabeth Murray
    • Jeff Schlanger
    • Kiki Smith
    • Jaune Q. Smith
  • More Resources

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

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.

RESOURCES

1. Homer's Bobbin Girl and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
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2. Homer's Tented Field and William Cullen Bryant's "Song of the Sower"
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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>.
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Artwork behind title: Winslow Homer's Mackerel Fishing (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum
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