Paintings of Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow Homer (1836 1910)
American artist born in Boston,
Massachusetts, one of the most expressive representatives of American realism at the end of the 19th century. He lived his childhood in a rural area of ​​Cambridge, after his father's business went bankrupt.
He received no formal education and, influenced by his mother's artistic gifts, began his career in art at the age of 19 as an apprentice lithographer. He moved to New York (1859), where he studied painting at
National Gallery of Design and interned with Frédéric
Rondel (1861) while developing prints for newspapers (1859-1865). During the secession war (1861-1865), he devoted himself to the military theme. He traveled to France (1866), where he met new aesthetics, but which did not influence his work. Back in America, he set up a studio in
New York City and began to paint watercolors and over the years, changed to canvases characterized by lonely figures, with accentuated detail and atmospheric effects. He returned to Europe (1881),. spending two years in the United Kingdom (1881-1883) and back in the United States, the sea becameWinslow Homer (1836 1910)
American artist born in Boston,
Massachusetts, one of the most expressive representatives of American realism at the end of the 19th century. He lived his childhood in a rural area of ​​Cambridge, after his father's business went bankrupt.
He received no formal education and, influenced by his mother's artistic gifts, began his career in art at the age of 19 as an apprentice lithographer. He moved to New York (1859), where he studied painting at
National Gallery of Design and interned with Frédéric
Rondel (1861) while developing prints for newspapers (1859-1865). During the secession war (1861-1865), he devoted himself to the military theme. He traveled to France (1866), where he met new aesthetics, but which did not influence his work. Back in America, he set up a studio in
New York City and began to paint watercolors and over the years, changed to canvases characterized by lonely figures, with accentuated detail and atmospheric effects. He returned to Europe (1881),. spending two years in the United Kingdom (1881-1883) and back in the United States, the sea becameWinslow Homer (1836 1910)
American artist born in Boston,
Massachusetts, one of the most expressive representatives of American realism at the end of the 19th century. He lived his childhood in a rural area of ​​Cambridge, after his father's business went bankrupt.
He received no formal education and, influenced by his mother's artistic gifts, began his career in art at the age of 19 as an apprentice lithographer. He moved to New York (1859), where he studied painting at
National Gallery of Design and interned with Frédéric
Rondel (1861) while developing prints for newspapers (1859-1865). During the secession war (1861-1865), he devoted himself to the military theme. He traveled to France (1866), where he met new aesthetics, but which did not influence his work. Back in America, he set up a studio in
New York City and began to paint watercolors and over the years, changed to canvases characterized by lonely figures, with accentuated detail and atmospheric effects. He returned to Europe (1881),. spending two years in the United Kingdom (1881-1883) and back in the United States, the sea becamethe predominant theme in his work, the famous
Homer's navies. Soon moved to Prouts
Neck (1883), a fishing village in Maine, where he lived in complete solitude, entirely dedicated to his art. Among its navies stood out Fog Notice (1885) and The Gulf Stream (1899). In his last paintings he showed a growing interest in the abstract and died in his studio at Prouts Neck.

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