Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted. Know best for his landscapes and seascape subjects and working in both oils and watercolours, his strong subjects are prized with collectors internationally. Homosassa River.
Works on Paper, Drawings and Watercolors; Credit. Somehow in 2008, Tony and Selina got their wits together and took it to The Antiques Roadshow where it was confirmed by expert Philip Mould to be a work by Winslow Homer, one of America's most important 19th century artists and valued it at £30,000. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. 388].
With very little formal training, Homer worked as an illustrator for many of the most prestigious publications of his day. Watercolor with additions of gum over graphite on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 19 11/16 x 13 7/8 in. Signature / Inscription / Marks. Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. [4] Notes: The main source for this provenance is the 2005 Winslow Homer catalogue raisonné [Goodrich, Lloyd. Winslow Homer used a fox’s pelt, supplied by a friend who was a hunter, and draped it over a barrel in the snow at his studio, to accurately paint the colors of the fox. Though he varied the composition and narrative emphasis across the series, three elements remain consistent: a small red schoolhouse, its young female teacher, and a luminous mountain setting. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and became an apprentice to a lithographer when he was 19 years old. Winslow Homer is known for genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration. Unfortunately, I believe you are thinking of the artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) who was well known for his marine and landscape paintings. He left two years later to begin free-lance illustration. Winslow Homer is known for genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration. Object Number. Exhibition History Exhibition History. The small watercolour was of three white children wearing ethnic costume. Type. Houghton Farm and Beyond. In 1859 Homer moved to New York, which remained his winter home until the 1880s, and studied for a brief time at the National Academy of Design and with Frederic Rondel. Winslow Homer is considered to be one of the most formidable talents in art history that America has produced in the 19th century.
Record of Works by Winslow Homer. I asked to see a closer view of the signature to be sure. 1 For an apparent first-time solo show devoted to Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in France, the curators of Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea have run counter to the prevailing fashion in museums worldwide of presenting eye-numbing and overwhelming retrospectives and should thus be congratulated on having selected an intelligently-sized group of works. American Art. Winslow Homer, one of the most important figures in early American art, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was born in Boston, Massachusetts as the second of three sons. Just as Versatile and ever changing as his Wonderful paintings, watercolors, oils, wood, etchings and drawings. *’ (3.29)
Born in 1836, Winslow Homer is regarded by many as one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century.
Winslow Homer signed his paintings in many different ways but never documented as H. Winslow (and I "think" this may even say Winslaw). He was born and raised in the Cambridge area, Boston, MA, and the first work he did in the field of art, was working as a print maker, in Boston, as well as …
The 1988 San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts Catalogue, Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War, provides detailed facts about Homer signatures in the 1860s; Halt of a Wagon Train 1864 – ‘The signature was initially painted in vermillion, but was painted out and replaced by a black signature, whose style differs from other Homer signatures.