Winslow Homer: Drawings E-Book

Mildred Ferguson

• Herausgeber: Mildred Ferguson
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Winslow Homer was American illustrator, painter, and etcher who found his motivation in the American life and in the sea. The last decades of his life he lived as a loner and died in his studio on September 30, 1910. Although Homer out shined as a watercolorist, his oil painting and drawings alike are characterized by directness, realism and objectivity. His potent and spectacular images of the sea in watercolor have never been exceeded and seize a exclusive place in American visual art. Named a landscape painter, Homer was an artist of potential and uniqueness whose images are symbols for the connection between Nature and Man. A watchful spectator of reality, he was at the same time creative master of color, of line and forms. His work is branded by bold and fluid brush strokes, potent draftsmanship and strong composition, and obviously by a lack of any over-romanticizing.

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Winslow Homer:Drawings

ByMildred Ferguson

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Foreword

Winslow Homerwas American painter, illustrator and etcher. He was born in Boston, where he later worked as a lithographer and illustrator.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836, the second of the three children, all sons, of Henrietta Benson and Charles Savage Homer. His artistic education consisted chiefly of his apprenticeship to the Boston commercial lithographer John H. Bufford, and a few lessons in painting from Frédéric Rondel after that. Following his apprenticeship, Homer worked as a free-lance illustrator for such magazines as Harper's Weekly.

In 1859 he moved to New York City, where began his career as a painter.In 1861Homerwas sent to the Civil War battlefront as correspondent for Harper's Weekly, his work winning international acclaim. Many of his studies of everyday life, such as Snap the Whip (1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), date from the postwar period, during which he was a popular magazine illustrator.

In 1876, Homer abandoned illustration to devote himself to painting. He found his inspiration in the American scene and, eventually, in the sea, which he painted at Prouts Neck, Maine, in the summer and in Key West, Fla., or the Bahamas in the winter. After 1884 he lived the life of aloner.Homer died in his Prout's Neck studio on September 30, 1910.

Although Homer excelled above all as a watercolourist, his oils and watercolours alike are characterized by directness, realism, objectivity, and splendid colour. His powerful and dramatic interpretations of the sea in watercolour have never been surpassed and hold a unique place in American art. They are in leading museums throughout the United States.

Homer was one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in theUnated Statesand its greatest watercolourist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an artist of power and individuality whose images are metaphors for the relationship of Man and Nature. A careful observer of visual reality, he was at the same time alive to the purely physical properties of pigment and colour, of line and form, and of the patterns they create. His work is characterized by bold, fluid brushwork, strong draughtsmanship and composition, and particularly by a lack of sentimentality.

Drawings

Signature in Palette

N.d.,pen and brown ink on wove paper,6.4 × 12 cm

Portrait of Elizabeth Grant

1866,Crayon on paper,15.24x17.78 cm