Paintings by Winslow Homer

We hope to see some images like these on the trip we dream about.  The paintings are done by Winslow Homer.  A relative some generations ago was married to him.  It's easy to imagine that he had a more than passing impact on the Wyeths.  You can find three of these and images by other artists at the collection scanned by Mark Harden and stored at Artchives.

Other than the three found at Artchive, the paintings were scanned from "Winslow Homer Watercolors", Helen A. Cooper, Yale University Press, 1986.  The photos collected here reflect my tastes.  They are neither Homer's most important in terms of his development as an artist, nor most important in terms of his impact on others.   Cooper's book is excellent.  She includes many more of Homer's paintings. Her explanation of context and technique I found very interesting.  The exhibition at the National Gallery for which she wrote the book must have been fantastic.   

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Sailing the Catboat (1873)
Private Collection		 The Gulf Stream (1899)
Metropolitan Museum of Art		 Sponge Fishing, Nassau (1885)
Private Collection		 At Tampa (1886)
Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery
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St. Johns River (1890)
The Hyde Collection		 A Basket of Clams (1873)
Mr. & Mrs. A.G. Altshul		 Watching the Tempest (1881) Fogg Art Museum Rest (1885) Private Collection
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Fishergirls (1881)
Ogden Mills Phipps		 Cabins, Nassau (1885) Private Collection Sponge Fishing (1885) Canajoharie Library Sponge Fishing, Nassau (1885) Private Collection
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Boys in a Dory (1880) Addison Gallery Orange Tree, Nassau (1885) Lano Corporation The Coral Divers (1885) Private Collection Shark Fishing (1885) Private Collection
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The Sponge Diver (1889) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Street Corner, Santiago de Cuba (1885) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Coconut Palms, Key West (1886) Tehlma and Melvin Lenkin A Norther - Key West (1886) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Hurricane, Bahamas (1899) Metropolitan Museum of Art A Wall, Nassau (1898) Metropolitam Museum of Art Nassau, Jan 1 (1899)
Metropolitan Museum		 Sloop, Nassau (1899)
Metropoltian Museum
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After the Hurricane (1899)
Art Institute of Chicago		 West Point, Prout's Neck (1900)
Clark Art Institute		 Key West (1903)
Fogg Art Museum		 Key West, Hauling Anchor (1903)
National Gallery of Art
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Diamond Shoal (1905)
IBM Corporation		      

Buy the book.  Go to one of the museum's showing his work.

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