Gallery

Winslow Homer Paintings
A guide to online museum collections with selected paintings (PDF)

Portland Museum of Art website - Homer's Prouts Neck Studio

Source Paintings

Week One:

A: New England Fisheries
Winslow Homer, “Clamming”
Winslow Homer, “The Dory”,
1887, watercolor over graphite
Winslow Homer, “The Herring Net”
Winslow Homer, “Kissing the Moon”
Winslow Homer,"Gloucester, Mackerel Fleet at Sunset”
Winslow Homer,"Gloucester, Mackerel Fleet at Dawn”

B: Nautical Technology
Winslow Homer, “The Lookout - “All’s Well”
Winslow Homer, “Marine”
1881, watercolor, Bowdoin college Museum of Art
Winslow Homer, “Winter At Sea: Taking In Sail Off The Coast” (For Harper's Weekly)
Winslow Homer, “Eight Bells”
Winslow Homer, “On a Lee Shore”

C: Weather and Currents
Winslow Homer, “ The Fog Warning”
Winslow Homer, “The Gulf Stream”,
oil on canvas 1909. MFA
Winslow Homer, “The Fog Warning”
Benjamin Franklin, “Chart of the Gulf Stream”

Week Three:

A. Beaches and Waterfronts;

The Transition from Occupational
to Recreational Spaces
Winslow Homer, “Beach Scene”
Winslow Homer, “A Fair Wind (Breezing Up)”
Winslow Homer, “Long Branch, New Jersey”

B. Maritime Communities
Winslow Homer, “Life Line”
Winslow Homer, Gloucester Harbor and Dory”
Winslow Homer, Beach Scene”
Winslow Homer, “Dad’s Coming”
Winslow Homer, “A Fair Wind (Breezing Up)

Additional contextualizing visuals include:

John Greenwood," Harbor Scene" c 1760;
Thomas Chambers, "New York Harbor with Pilot Boat”
George Washington, mid-19thcentury;
the mid-19th century "Steamship”Erie”, c 1837
Roster Salmon, "The Ship”
and ”Maneuvering Off Greenock" 1819
John Frederick Kensett, "Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor" 1857
Fits Henry Lane, "Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay" 1836
Martin Johnson Header, "Rio de Janeiro Bay" 1864
Thomas Moran, "The Much Resounding Sea" 1884
Winslow Homer, "On the Sands" 1881
Winslow Homer, "Eight Bells" 1887
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, "Revere Beach" 1896
John Marin, "Middle of Atlantic" 1909
Mark Rothko, "Sea Fantasy" 1946

Taking Sunflower to Teacher Giclee Print

"Taking Sunflower to Teacher"

Maritime America in the Age of Winslow Homer
Participant Gallery

As participants in this Institute, you may have some favorite Winslow Homer paintings, or other paintings from the era, that you'd like to share with the class.
If so, please send them to:
lbradley@umassd.edu and I will post them here.

Paula Browne sent in these two interesting Homer paintings - portraits of people interacting with nature, and controlling it rather than being overwhelmed by it, as in Homer's most popular maritime paintings. Thanks Paula!

The Turtle Pond
"The Turtle Pond"