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Homer Winslow The Reaper

Returning Fishing Boats

The Herring Net

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Canoe in the Rapids

Three Boys in a Dory with Lobster Pots

Homer Winslow Three Boys in a Dory with Lobster

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The Fog Warning

The Houses of Parliament

Rocky Coast and Gulls

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Quananiche Lake St. John

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Quananiche Lake St. John - Famous Homer Paintings

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter best known for his depictions of the sea. He is considered one of the most formidable American painters in history as well as of the nineteenth century. Largely self-taught, he studied the masters until he felt comfortable creating his own rich, dense oil on canvas paintings. Much of his artistic development took place in his professional life when he worked as a commercial illustrator in New England. Much of his work was done in oil, but at certain points he also created in watercolor. Much of his work depicts scenes he witnessed on vacations on the east coast, and they have come to be esteemed as quintessentially American works of art.

Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836. He was born to a middle class family of staunch New Englanders. It is likely that he inherited his knack for art, and received his earliest training from his mother, who was a watercolorist. He was very close with his mother and not only inherited her artistic abilities, but her somber, strong willed nature that stayed with him throughout his life. At the age of nineteen Homer became an apprentice with an area lithographer. It was here that he began to hone his artistic sensibilities as a trade. Finding himself ill suited for such work after several years, Homer began to work as a freelance artist, declaring, “since I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.” He worked as a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years, contributing to many magazines. Most of his work depicted commercial and urbane subjects, as he was usually commissioned for such works. His style was very distinct, however, emphasizing clean outlines and simplified forms in great contrast to their surroundings. These elements of his style remained important and consistent throughout his career.

After traveling to Paris, Homer began to frequently depict scenes of Parisian life, rather than the quintessential American landscapes. He painted dozens of oil paintings in his brief stay in Paris alone and continued to be influenced by what he saw there while he lived and worked in the United States. Years later he returned to mostly idealized rural scenes making them ever larger and more dramatic. He was very ambitious as he aged, and he painted very deliberately in color palettes that were often quite sober. In his old age he became quite enamored of nationalistic and heroic scenes.

Winslow Homer has had a lasting effect on the American arts scene, and his influence is wide ranging. He is often held up as a beautiful example of the American relationship with a beautiful and sometimes harsh landscape and the stoic nature it requires to capture such scenes. The far reaching influence of Homer can be seen in many contemporary paintings today, especially natural scenes, many of which can be found in our Landscape Canvas section. Homer continues to be studied not just in the United States, but throughout the world.

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