Northeaster (painting)
| Northeaster | |
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| Artist | Winslow Homer |
| Year | 1895 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 87.6 cm × 128 cm (34.5 in × 50 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, US |
| Accession | 10.64.5 |
| Website | www |
Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter
Breezing Up, he created it during his time in Maine.[1] It is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Viewers are presented a struggle of elements between the sea and the rocky shore.[2] Winslow Homer excelled in painting landscape paintings that depicted seascapes and mountain scenery. [3][4]
Background and description
After extensive travel, Homer settled in
Northeaster blows. Northeasters are storms along the upper East Coast of the United States that derive their name from the direction of the wind as it rotates onto land. The painting dates from 1895, but Homer reworked it by 1901.[6][2][7]
Provenance
Northeaster was at M. Knoedler and Company of New York in 1895 and then in 1895–96 with Thomas B. Clarke, also in New York. It was then returned to Homer in Maine. In 1900 it was again with Knoedler. From 1901 to 1910 it was owned by George A. Hearn, also of New York, who gave it to the Metropolitan Museum.[6]
References
- ^ "Winslow Homer". Encyclopedia of World Biography. The Gale Group Inc. 2004.
- ^ a b Prown, Jules David; The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (May 30, 2018). "Winslow Homer". Encyclopædia Britannica.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|author2=has generic name (help) - ^ Fabrikant, Geraldine (September 2, 2009). "Winslow Homer's Maine". The New York Times.
- ^ Simkin, John (August 2014). "Winslow Homer". Spartacus Educational.
- ^ Goodrich, Lloyd (1959). Winslow Homer (PDF). George Braziller, Inc. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
- ^ a b "Northeaster". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- S2CID 192033304 – via ResearchGate.
Further reading
- Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1990, pp. 11–13, ISBN 0-8109-1193-0
- Elizabeth Johns, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002, p. 9, ISBN 0-520-22725-5
- Randall C. Griffin, Winslow Homer: An American Vision. Phaidon Press, New York, 2006, ISBN 0-7148-3992-2