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Winslow Homer

American landscape painter and watercolorist.

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Winslow Homer

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Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 24, 1836, and was largely self-taught as an artist.[1][2] He began his career as a commercial illustrator before turning to oil painting and watercolor, chronicling working vacations and rural life.[2][3]

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Life and work

At age 19, Homer apprenticed with Boston lithographer J. H. Bufford, a formative but repetitive experience working on sheet music covers.[4] He opened his own studio in Boston after declaring he would have no master.[5] In 1859, Homer moved to New York City, opening a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building.[6] After 1880, Homer focused on working women rather than genteel ladies at leisure.[7]

Homer's first instructor was his mother, who was a talented amateur watercolorist, and the two maintained a close bond throughout their lives.[1] In 1873, while spending a summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Homer began to regularly paint with watercolors.[8] From 1881 to 1882, Homer resided in the coastal village of Cullercoats, Northumberland, where he painted working men and women.[9] Between 1888 and 1903, Homer made repeated trips to Key West, Florida, where he created works including The Gulf Stream.[10]

What the cited sources add

The same source states that Homer's later raw style was the distinguishing characteristic of his entire career.[11] Barrow's article in Artforum describes Homer's painting The Gulf Stream as based on sketches from his 1884 and 1898 visits to the Bahamas and Florida.[12] Tatham's book explores the impact of Darwinism on Homer's perception of nature and his use of hunting imagery.[13] The same volume states that Homer's affinity for the Adirondack region of New York lasted for forty years.[13]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cooper, p. 16. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Poole, Robert M. Hidden Depths . Smithsonian Magazine. April 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2008. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cooper, Helen A., Winslow Homer Watercolors, p. 16. Yale University Press, 1986.; Hoeber, "Winslow Homer, A Painter of the Sea", The World's Work: A History of Our Time, February 1911, p. 14009–14017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cikovsky, "The American Collections", Columbus Museum of Art, 1988, p. 2 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Johns (2002), p. 13.; "Winslow Homer" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cikovsky (1990), p. 15. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cikovsky (1990), p. 72. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rough Notes on the Exhibition of the American Water Color Society for 1881, "Andrews' American Queen", p. 110. February 12, 1881. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The American Collections", Columbus Museum of Art, 1988, p. 2 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Winslow Homer" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Federal Writers' Project, "Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State", Oxford University Press, 1939, p. 159 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. "Winslow Homer". facts only, no text reused. theartstory.org
  12. Barrow, "Resurfacing Winslow Homer's most elusive painting", www.artforum.com, July 28, 2022. facts only, no text reused. artforum.com
  13. Tatham, "Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks", Syracuse University Press, April 2004. facts only, no text reused. press.syr.edu

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Winslow Homer (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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