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Winslow Homer was a self-taught
American painter and illustrator, considered a master of watercolors.
Homer began his career as an illustrator and chronicled the
Civil War for Harper's Weekly. Following the war he concentrated
on light subjects and pastoral scenes. After a stay in the
English fishing village of Cullercoats in 1881-82, his pictures
became more dramatic and began to emphasize marine subjects.
He is now considered one of the great painters of the sea.
When Winslow Homer settled at Prout's Neck, Maine, in 1883 at
age 47, he was already a famous American artist. Winslow Homer
and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s takes into
account the painter's earlier decades in New York, which featured
a 15-year stint beginning in 1857 as an illustrator for Harper's
Weekly. An explosion in art interest and art writing after the
Civil War and a plethora of new influences from Europe converged
in and around Homer's work, argues Margaret C. Conrads, a curator
at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum. With 97 color plates,
58 b&w illus. and generous quotations from period literature,
Conrads reconstructs a heady climate of artistic possibility
and achievement. —Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information,
Inc.
Tatham's book is an important contribution both to the history
of the book and to Winslow Homer scholarship. Very well illustrated
with more than 170 plates, the volume unveils a largely unknown
corpus of work
Winslow
Homer: Paintings of the Civil War by Marc Simpson,
Nicolai, Jr. Cikovsky, Lucretia Hoover Giese – Paperback
reprint edition (September 1989) COFAM / DeYoung Memorial Museum
Winslow Homer, an "artist-correspondent" during
the Civil War, is well known for his drawings of everyday life
in camp and on the battlefield, but his oil paintings on this
subject have not received much attention. The riveting essays
in this exhibition catalog, which also serves as a monograph,
cover Homer's technique, the historical background and symbolism
of the paintings, and period criticism. Over 20 paintings are
given thorough catalog entries and represented by rich color
plates. This handsome art book accomplishes what few do: it
satisfies a variety of audiences, from amateur to scholar, American
art historian to military buff. Highly recommended. —Kathleen
Eagen Johnson, Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, N.Y.Copyright
1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Winslow Homer Watercolors by Donelson F. Hoopes – Paperback,
88 pages Reissue edition (November 1984) Watson-Guptill Pubns
Donelson F. Hoopes devotes a beautiful volume exclusively to
the most popular of all American watercolorists. Published in
cooperation with The Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the book includes virtually the entire Winslow Homer
collection of both museums.
Winslow
Homer in the Adirondacksby David Tatham – Hardcover:
158 pages Publisher: Syracuse University Press; 1st ed edition
(June 1996)
Winslow
Homer by Nicolai Cikovsky, Franklin Kelly, National
Gallery of Art, Charles Brock (Contributor), Judith Walsh (Contributor)
– Hardcover (November 1995) Natl Gallery of Art
This book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings,
watercolors, and drawings that span Winslow Homer`s career,
focusing not only on Homer`s masterpieces in various media but
also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect
the artist`s essentially modern practice of thinking and working
serially and thematically.
The
Watercolors of Winslow Homer by Miles Unger,
Winslow Homer, Arnold Skolnick (Editor) – Hardcover: 224
pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (September 1, 2001)
Winslow Homer's watercolors rank among the greatest pictorial
legacies of this country. Winslow Homer's first 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
on the rocky New England coast. There he turned to watercolor,
in part for financial reasons (watercolors were easier to sell),
but the newly popular medium also enabled him to capture his
impressions of scenery and landscapes encountered during his
many travels with an immediacy and directness impossible in
the more time-consuming oils. Of his more than 700 watercolors,
over 140 are reproduced here, dating from the 1870s to the turn
of the century and ranging from pastoral to narrative, dramatic
to serene. Miles Unger's text provides insight into the artist's
technical mastery of the medium and discusses the importance
of Homer's watercolors within the larger body of his work. 140
color illustrations.
Winslow Homer Watercolors by Helen A. Cooper – Paperback
Reprint edition (September 1987) Yale Univ Press
Winslow Homer was a successful illustrator in his 30s when the
American Society of Painters in Watercolor held a landmark international
show in New York City. It gave him the impetus to produce prolifically
in this medium, and to take the text of his art from American
farms and sea towns to the coast of England, from the Bahamas
to Key West. Watercolor gave his oil paintings their sense of
sunlight and freshness and a greater evocation of movement.
Highlights of Homer's long career in watercolor are shown in
132 luminous color plates. The informed text was written by
a curator of the Yale University Art Gallery. Published in conjunction
with an exhibition now touring the United States, this first
major survey of Homer's watercolors is recommended for art libraries
and general collections. Hara L. Seltzer, NYPL
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Winslow Homer, whose work is featured on the cover of this catalog,
was the greatest American painter of the 19th century. His subjects
are touchingly familiar: the Civil War soldier, the country
school, the emancipated slave. This volume includes a broad
selection of his paintings and watercolors, each profoundly
symbolic of the main currents of American life from the Civil
War to th e turn of the century. 103 illustrations, including
52 plates in full color.
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Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in
the 1870s 
Winslow
Homer: His Art, His Light, His Landscapes
Winslow
Homer and the Illustrated Book 
Winslow
Homer: Paintings of the Civil War 
Winslow Homer Watercolors
Winslow Homer and the Sea
Winslow
Homer in the Adirondacks 
Winslow
Homer
The
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer Watercolors
Winslow
Homer (Library of American Art Series)
