The Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer’s watercolors rank among the greatest pictorial legacies of this country.Winslow Homer’s primary medium was oil painting, although to make ends meet, he did commercial illustration and chronicled the New York City social scene. Eventually, Homer withdrew from city life altogether to settle at Prout’s Neck in New England. There he turned to watercolor, in part for financial reasons (they were easier to sell), but also because the newly popular medium enabled him to capture his impre

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Art Now and Then: Winslow Homer

If one were to list the top ten American artist of all time, at or near the top of that list would have to appear the name of Y. Winslow Homer. (The "Y" stood for Yankee.) Born in 1836, he grew up in New England. After finishing high school , … Until Homer adopted it, watercolor had been largely the medium of color sketches–preparatory studies for studio landscapes rather than a medium for finished work. Although a few English artist had used it for …

Publish Date: 08/01/2011 21:01

http://art-now-and-then.blogspot.com/2011/08/winslow-homer.html

Watercolor Painting Styles: What's Yours? | Reboot Album

One of Winslow Homer's best known watercolors is “Breezing Up” (first titled, “A Fair Wind”) It was said in 1876, when this picture was exhibited, that it was in a class of its own. As one review put it, “Its sincerity …

Publish Date: 08/23/2011 7:40

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Andrew Wyeth | DESKARATI – AN ECLECTIC MIX OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY …

Inspired by Winslow Homer's watercolors, Wyeth painted an impressionistic watercolor, Coot Hunter, (1933), shown below, in which he experimented with the “fleeting effects of light and movement”. …

Publish Date: 08/24/2011 2:40

http://deskarati.com/2011/08/24/andrew-wyeth/

Winslow Homer – Four Views of Nature

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) remained in the history of American art by his depictions of the wild nature of Maine: its ocean shore, its lakes and rivers surrounded by endless woods. His heroes are fishermen and hunters, and women and children waiting f…