Winslow Homer,

Reproductions of Homer's oils and watercolors accompany a brief account of his life, career, and artistic themes.

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Main Author: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
Corporate Authors: Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago
Other Authors: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York?] [1973]
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Table of Contents:
  • Boyhood and youth; apprenticeship
  • Illustrating; the Civil War
  • First paintings; art training
  • Young Winslow Homer
  • Summer resorts; the deep country; childhood subjects
  • Relation to native genre
  • Outdoor light and color
  • Decorative values; compositions
  • His ideas on art
  • Relation to older American artists; to his contemporaries; to the Barbizon school; to the French impressionists
  • Visit to France
  • Luminist paintings
  • Relation to impression: concern with outdoor light
  • Illustrations
  • First watercolors
  • Works of the 1870s; feminine themes; Negro subjects; the Adirondacks
  • Visits to England
  • Settling in Maine
  • Sea paintings
  • Etchings
  • Marines; winter scenes; The Fox Hunt
  • Meteorological accuracy
  • His artistic philosophy; sense of design
  • Later watercolors; the northern woods; the Bahamas, Florida and Bermuda
  • His watercolors: design, color, vitality
  • The Gulf Stream
  • Old age
  • Illustrations: oils and watercolors.