Homer, Winslow
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
American marine and seascape painter, 1836 to 1910.
Winslow Homer, American painter, 1836 to 1910, the leading American marine artist of the 19th century. After settling at Prouts Neck, Maine, in 1883 he painted the sea and the men who worked it. Representative works are ‘The Gulf Stream’ (1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art), showing a sailor adrift on a dismasted boat among sharks, and ‘The Fog Warning’ (1885) and ‘Eight Bells’ (1886). He also produced sea watercolors in the Bahamas and Bermuda.
Source: Winslow Homer (1836 to 1910), American marine painter; 'The Gulf Stream' (1899), Metropolitan Museum of Art.