Winslow Homer Julia Raffa
All About Me • Artist’s name: • Winslow Homer • Born: • February 24, 1836Boston, Massachusetts • Died: • September 29, 1910 (age 74)Prouts Neck, Maine • Nationality: • American
Family Life • Charles Savage Homer • father • businessman • left family and fled to Europe • Henrietta Benson Homer • mother • gifted amateur watercolorist • Homer's first teacher • close relationship
Education • never received a formal artistic education • art lessons from his mother • apprentice to lithographer, John H. Bufford. • became a freelance illustrator for Harper’s Weekly and Ballou’s Pictorial • Harper’s Weekly commissioned Homer as a visual journalist to cover the Civil War
Influences & Inspiration • Most of his works are scenes of nature • He learned about the difficulties of the fishermen’s life when he moved to Prout's Neck, Maine • Studied the sea • wave structure, strength of the surges, and the beauty of the climactic bursts of white foam • Found inspiration in the American scene in the sea • Early works captured horror of Civil War, and later on his work captured the peace and serenity of the Maine Coast
On the Trail, c. 1892,
Girl Carrying a Basket, 1882
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873-1876
Movement & Style • Impressionism • Luminous, luminism • Realism, representation, realist, naturalist • Known for • Genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration • Watercolorist • Characterized by directness, realism, objectivity, and splendid color
Salt Kettle, Bermuda, 1899
Casting, Number Two,1894
Native Huts, Nassau, 1885
Incoming Tide, Scarboro Maine, 1883
Right and Left, 1909
Success & Acheievments Awards Exhibitions • 1901Gold Medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY • 1902 Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA • 1902Gold Medal, Charleston Exhibition, NC • 1904 Gold Medal, St. Louis Exposition, MO • 1863-88 National Academy of Design, NY, NY • 1864-82 Brooklyn Art Association, NY • 1867 Paris Exposition, France • 1877-1909 Boston Art Club, MA • 1888, 1893-97, 1900-1910 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA • 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL • 1900 Paris Exposition, France • 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY • 1902 Charleston Exhibition, SC • 1904 St. Louis Exposition, MO • 1907-08 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. • 1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY • 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY • 1999 Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY • 2005 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903
Red Shirt, Homosassa, Florida, 1904
Fun Fact • On May 5, 1998 Bill Gates paid $30 million for Lost on the Grand Banks, the last major seascape by Winslow Homer
Lost on the Grand Banks (1885)
Credits & Citations • http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?artist=21592 • http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300065558 • http://www.sullivangoss.com/winslow_homer/ • http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=21592 • http://www.winslowhomer.org/ • http://www.cuchicago.edu/Documents/Academics/College%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences/art/Art%20Lessons/1st_09_Winslow-Homer_The-Country-School.pdf • http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homersplash.htm
