Post on 05-Jan-2016
Winslow HomerAmerican Painter and Printmaker
Most famous for Watercolor Seascapes1836-1910
By Adrianna Thomas
•Born in Boston, Mass.
•Apprenticed to a Commercial Lithographer.
•Largely self-taught artist, but did spend a year in Paris studying Impressionism.
•Began freelance career as a commercial illustrator. He was sent to sketch Battle Scenes and Camp Life during Civil War.
After the Civil War, made transition from illustrator to painter. Took up oil painting producing major works in his NY studio.
Snap the Whip
Sailing the Catboat
•In 1875, Homer quit working as an illustrator. He spent 2 years in England where he rekindled his love for the sea.
•When he came back to the US, he moved to Maine’s coastline.
•During winter he traveled to the coast of Florida & the Caribbean to paint.
•He began using watercolors and revolutionized this medium.
The Red Canoe
Canoe in the Rapids, 1897
His work captures the
beauty of America’s Landscape
The Fog Warning, 1885
Breezing Up, 1876
Incoming Tide, Scarboro Maine, 1883
Sunlight on the Coast, 1890
The Gulf Stream, 1899
Undertow
Kissing the Moon, 1904