Winslow Homer Poet Of The Sea

This exhibition catalog organizes Homerand#8217;s sea-centered works by four periods that correspond to geographic locations: Gloucester, Massachusetts and other early East Coast seascapes; Cullercoats, England; Proutand#8217;s Neck in Maine; and notations from his trips to tropical regions such as the Bahamas and fishing retreats such as the Adirondacks in New York. Distinguished European and American scholars, in a series of incisive essays, argue that Homerand#8217;s seascapes need to be reevaluated. While acknowledging that most understand his paintings as premier examples of American realism, the contributors show that they are also distinctly modern in a way that set Homer radically apart from his contemporaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in his seascapes, where abstractions and expression battle his pictorial realism. The moving emotional undertones of his seascapes emerge in the compelling full-color reproductions featured in the catalog, as his paintings simultaneously capture the unique landscape of their geographic settings, the universality of manand#8217;s relationship to the sea, and issues of pictorial representation in general.

Published in conjunction with exhibitions at Londonand#8217;s Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Musand#233;e dand#8217;Art Amand#233;ricain in Giverny, Winslow Homer: Poet of the Seaand#160;offers a new view of an American master.