Author: Margaret C. Conrads Publisher: Princeton Univ Department of Art & ISBN: 9780691070995 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 252
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Homer's luminous watercolors and outdoor portraits are some of the most recognizable works in art history. This collection paints Homer as an integral part of the New York art scene who both embraced, and challenged, the American aesthetic of art. Color illustrations.
Author: Martha Tedeschi Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300223862 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 1027
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American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) created some of the most breathtaking and influential watercolors in the history of the medium. This handsome volume provides a comprehensive look at Homer’s technical and artistic practice as a watercolorist, and at the experiences that shaped his remarkable development. Focusing on 25 rarely seen watercolors from the Art Institute’s collection, along with 75 other related watercolors, gouaches, drawings, and paintings––including many of the artist’s characteristic subjects––the book proposes a new understanding of Homer’s techniques as they evolved over his career. Accessibly written essays consider each of the featured works in detail, examining the relationship between monochrome drawing and watercolor and the artist’s lifelong interest in new optical and color theories. In particular, they show how his sojourn in England—where he encountered leading British marine watercolorists and the dynamic avant-garde art scene—precipitated an abrupt change in technique and subject matter upon his return home. Conservators address the fragility of these watercolors, which are prone to fading due to light exposure, and demonstrate, through pioneering research on Homer’s pigments and computer-assisted imaging, how the works have changed over time. Several of Homer’s greatest watercolors are digitally “restored,” providing an exhilarating glimpse of the original impact of Homer’s groundbreaking color experiments.
Author: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Publisher: Clark Art Institute ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 246
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the core figures of 19th-century American art. While most well-known for his oil paintings of Civil War scenes and the windswept Atlantic coastline, Homer's oeuvre encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from childhood games through the life-and-death struggles of man and nature. The Clark Art Institute holds one of the greatest collections of Homer's work across all media, including wood engravings, etchings, watercolors, drawings, and paintings from nearly all phases of his career. The collection was assembled predominately by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who purchased his first Winslow Homer painting in 1915, followed by Two Guides in 1916 and maintained a passion for the artist throughout the rest of his collecting career, acquiring the small oil Playing a Fish in 1955. This book examines Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of Homer and the Clark's extensive holdings of the artist. Over thirty entries discuss the role of individual works in Homer's oeuvre and their larger significance to the art world. An illustrated checklist provides information on titles, dates, and media for the entire collection. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Exhibition Schedule: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (06/09/13-09/08/13)
Author: Thomas Andrew Denenberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780300184426 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Foreword / Mark H. Bessire -- Acknowledgments / Mark H. Bessire and Thomas A. Denenberg -- Weatherbeaten / Thomas A. Denenberg -- "The Right Place": Winslow Homer and the Development of Prouts Neck / Kenyon C. Bolton III -- The Architecture of Homer's Studio / James F. O'Gorman -- North Atlantic Drift: A Meditation on Winslow Homer and French Painting / Erica E. Hirsler -- "You Must Wait, and Wait Patiently": Winslow Homer's Prouts Neck Marines / Marc Simpson -- Plates -- Exhibition Checklist -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Lender to the Exhibition -- Index -- Illustration Credits.
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300065558 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
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This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically.
Author: Elizabeth Athens Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300229905 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Catalog of an exhibition held at Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 11, 2017-February 4, 2018, and at Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2-May 20, 2018.
Author: David Tatham Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 180
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Homer's affinity for this remote region of New York State lasted for forty years. No other place - not even Prout's Neck in Maine - held his attention as an artist for so long a period. Nearly every time he set out for the Adirondacks he went to the same two places - the environs of Keene Valley and a group of rustic buildings in a forest clearing in the Essex County township of Minerva, south of the High Peaks.
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300203462 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 452
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A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.
Author: Frank H. Goodyear III Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300214553 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 209
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A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer’s engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paper One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer’s art, this volume exposes Homer’s own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer’s understanding of the camera’s ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America’s most original painters.
Author: Margaret C. Conrads
Author: Martha Tedeschi
Author: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Author: Margaret C. Conrads
Author: Thomas Andrew Denenberg
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky
Author: Elizabeth Athens
Author: David Tatham
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
Author: Frank H. Goodyear III