Title: Winslow Homer,
Authors: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910; Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987.; Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; Art Institute of Chicago
Year: 1973
Subjects: Homer, Winslow,
Abstract: Reproductions of Homer's oils and watercolors accompany a brief account of his life, career, and artistic themes.
Contents: Boyhood and youth; apprenticeship -- Illustrating; the Civil War -- First paintings; art training -- Young Winslow Homer -- Summer resorts; the deep country; childhood subjects -- Relation to native genre -- Outdoor light and color -- Decorative values; compositions -- His ideas on art -- Relation to older American artists; to his contemporaries; to the Barbizon school; to the French impressionists -- Visit to France -- Luminist paintings -- Relation to impression: concern with outdoor light -- Illustrations -- First watercolors -- Works of the 1870s; feminine themes; Negro subjects; the Adirondacks -- Visits to England -- Settling in Maine -- Sea paintings -- Etchings -- Marines; winter scenes; The Fox Hunt -- Meteorological accuracy -- His artistic philosophy; sense of design -- Later watercolors; the northern woods; the Bahamas, Florida and Bermuda -- His watercolors: design, color, vitality -- The Gulf Stream -- Old age -- Illustrations: oils and watercolors.