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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.
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Not all of Homer's sea pictures are so benevolent as Breezing Up: he portrayed waves crashing ashore as did Courbet (see for example The Wave, c. 1869). Monet's relatively early paintings Seascape: Storm (1867) and The Green Wave (1866) show boats on somewhat turbulent seas. The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer, 1899.
The Bright Side, 1865, by Winslow Homer. The Bright Side is an oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer.Painted in 1865, the concluding year of the American Civil War, the work depicts four African American Union Army teamsters sitting on the sunny side of a Sibley tent. [1]
The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
Author: National Gallery of Art: Image title: Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910 ), East Hampton Beach, Long Island, 1874, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 2012.89.2
The Life Line is a late 19th-century painting by American artist Winslow Homer. [1] Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the rescue of a passenger from a stricken ship. The work – one of Homer's most iconic – is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [2] [3] [4]