Who will fall over first?
“Old Friends” (water color and opaque watercolor over old graphite), by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in the “Watercolors Unboxed” show at the Worcester Art Museum, through Sept. 10. He was one of New England’s greatest painters.
Pre-Coppertone
“Children on the Beach” (oil on canvas, 1873), by Winslow Homer, in the show “Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey,’’ at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 3-Dec 1.
Photography and the genius of Winslow Homer
"Winslow Homer at Marshfield {Mass.}, " ca. 1869 (albumen silver print), by an unknown photographer. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. This is in the show "Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting,'' through Oct. 28. The museum building is famous, having be designed by Charles McKim, who also designed the Rhode Island State House and much of Columbia University.
Winslow Homer with 'The Gulf Stream' in his {Prouts Neck, Maine} studio," ca. 1900, (gelatin silver print), by an unidentified photographer.
The museum says:
"This exhibition explores the question of Homer’s relationship with the medium of photography and its impact on his artistic practice. As one attuned to appearances and how to represent them, Homer understood that photography, as a new technology of sight, had much to reveal. This exhibition thus adds an important new dimension to our appreciation of this pioneering American painter, demonstrating his recognition that photography did not undermine, but instead complemented his larger artistic interests.''
The young kept busy in late 19th Century New England farm life
Right, "Young Farmers (Study for Weaning the Calf)'' (oil on canvas), painted in 1873-74, and, left, "Returning from the Spring'' (oil on panel), painted in 1874, both by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), at the Portland Museum of Art.
Winslow Homer (United States, 1836–1910), Young Farmers (Study for Weaning the Calf), 1873–74, oil on canvas, 13 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches.
Winslow Homer (United States, 1836 - 1910), Returning from the Spring, 1874, oil on panel, 7 7 /8 x 5 3/4 inches
We could use one
"The Life Line, 1884 ( oil on canvas), by Winslow Homer, in the show "Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England,'' at the Worcester Art Museum, through Feb. 4. Of course he was most famous for his paintings of New England scenes.
The art of hunting and fishing
"Huntsman and Dogs" (oil on canvas, 1891), by Winslow Homer, in the show "Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art,'' at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt., through Aug. 27.
The museum says that this is the first major exhibit in America to explore the visual culture of American hunting and fishing in painting and sculpture from the early 19th Century to World War II. The show includes works by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, as well as by such specialist sporting artists as Charles Deas, Alfred Jacob Miller, Carl Rungius and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait and modernist interpretations of these subjects by George Bellows and Marsden Hartley, among others.