Homer painted the other picture — the boy looking out to sea — several years later, during a long summer stay in the port of Gloucester, Mass. This was in 1873.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) "For to Be a Farmer’s Boy" 1887 (Gift of Mrs George T. Langhorne in memory of Edward Carson Waller, AIC 1963.760). This image had long puzzled scholars due to the ...

Boy and Girl at a Well (1879) sold for $113,400, including fees, ... "Winslow Homer is well established as one of the leading artists of the 19th century and in art history, ...

Winslow Homer has aged well. During his lifetime—he was born in Boston in 1836 and died in Prouts Neck, Maine, in 1910—he was a critical and commercial success.

In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, ... His famous scene of barefoot boys playing, Snap the Whip (1872), is unusual in showing the moment after the break, rather than the moment before.

Winslow Homer, ‘The Veteran in a New Field,’ 1865. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Homer’s work from this period offers a wise, warm, and wary visual language with which to approach the matter of race ...

Winslow Homer's "Breezing Up (a Fair Wind)" Three boys and an old salt are out for an afternoon sail in a sturdy catboat out of Gloucester, Mass., ...

In Winslow Homer's dramatic etching "Eight Bells" a weathered mariner in an oilskin slicker charts a safe course across darkening seas. Like the seaman at his sextant, Homer seems the right ...

A rare oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer has been given as a gift to a Massachusetts museum. Skip to content. NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11.

Winslow Homer is best known for his seascapes, energetically capturing scenes of seamen battling against the elements. But that was just half of his career.Starting out as an artist, Homer created ...