Winslow Homer's The Pioneer
A discussion of The Pioneer by American art student Leo M.
Peter Wood Speaks About Winslow Homer's Near Andersonville
This Inside the Vaults video short follows the history of Winslow Homer's Civil War-era painting Near Andersonville. Archivist of the United States David Ferriero speaks with Peter Wood, emeritus professor of history at Duke University, about Wood's new book, named after the painting.
Inside the Vaults includes highlights from the National Archives in the Washington, DC, area and from the Presidential libraries and regional archives nationwide. These shorts present behind-the-scenes exclusives and offer surprising stories about the National Archives treasures. See more from Inside the Vaults at
Prouts Neck Black Point Inn
Prouts Neck Black Point Inn
Widows Walk. Looking first toward Richmond Island and then toward Black Point Road in the second window and then over Western Beach and toward Pine Point in the third window.
Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 4 (part 3/5)
The Gilden Age (episode Four)
Winslow Homer (and grand niece Doris Homer) at Prout's Neck, Maine (and the sea - You are always alone before it).
Winslow Homer: Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his sculpture The Adams Memorial
The technological sublime and the new engineering age. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by German-born John Augustus Roebling.
development of the modern skyscraper and Elisha Otis' invention of the elevator (The most crucial business invention until the computer)
Chicago architecture and Louis Sullivan. The 1899 Carson Pirie Scott Department Store on State Street.
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originally aired on US television in 1997
Famous Paintings of Winslow Homer An American Landscape Painter and Printmaker
Famous Paintings of Winslow Homer An American Landscape Painter and Printmaker
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Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 -- September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.
Homer never taught in a school or privately, as did Thomas Eakins, but his works strongly influenced succeeding generations of American painters for their direct and energetic interpretation of man's stoic relationship to an often neutral and sometimes harsh wilderness. Robert Henri called Homer's work an integrity of nature.
American illustrator and teacher Howard Pyle revered Homer and encouraged his students to study him. His student and fellow illustrator, N. C. Wyeth (and through him Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth), shared the influence and appreciation, even following Homer to Maine for inspiration. The elder Wyeth's respect for his antecedent was intense and absolute, and can be observed in his early work Mowing (1907). Perhaps Homer's austere individualism is best captured in his admonition to artists: Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Winslow Homer Gallery
Unlike many artists who were well known for working in only one art medium, Winslow Homer was prominent in a variety of art media.
The War for the Union, 1862, wood engraving (multiple museum collections)
The Bridle Path, 1868, oil painting (Clark Art Institute)
A Rainy Day in Camp, 1871, oil on canvas. Private collection
Gloucester Harbor, 1873, oil on canvas. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Song of the Lark, 1876, oil on canvas. Chrysler Museum of Art
Camp Fire, 1877--1878, oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perils of the Sea, 1881, watercolor. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Santiago de Cuba: Street Scene, 1885. watercolor and graphite. Yale University Art Gallery
Improve the Present Hour, c. 1889, etching (multiple museum collections)
After the Hurricane, Bahamas, 1899, watercolor (Art Institute of Chicago)
The Red Canoe, 1889, watercolor, Peabody Collection
The new novel, 1877, Museum of Fine arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
My Audition As Artist Winslow Homer(Dr.Ruehl)
Dr.Franklin Ruehl auditions as noted artist Winslow Homer.
E-mail:drruehl@yahoo.com
A Fall Road Trip to Maine
Emily and I took a quick road trip out to the Atlantic Coast of New Hampshire and Maine. We went at just the right time as the colours of the leaves were perfect. I played golf at Cape Neddick and Prouts Neck Country Club, Emily ate Lobster at Nunan's Lobster Shack and Joseph's By the Sea... This is another one of my short films shot with a Nokia e70 camera phone.
Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Sylvia Yount
Sylvia Yount is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she oversees fine and decorative arts from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. In her curatorial and administrative practice, Yount works to expand and enrich traditional collection and gallery narratives by including Latin and Native American art as well as work by women and artists of color. Her presentation explores the challenges and opportunities of these efforts in the context of shifting definitions of American art and identity, both past and present.
Lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. Free tickets in the G Street Lobby at 6 p.m.
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art highlight excellence and innovation in American art through evenings with an outstanding artist, critic, and scholar. These talks are a forum for discussing the creative experience and what American art is today.
This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.
Session 2 - Effects of the Civil War on American Art
This symposium examines the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on American landscape and genre painting, along with the period's new medium of photography. The program is free and open to the public, and is organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Civil War and American Art.
Jackson Lears - Cultural and Intellectual Historian
Jackson Lears, cultural and intellectual historian and distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University, discusses the evolution of the American sublime. Originally arising from a Romantic, Protestant faith in the divinity of wild nature, the notion was transformed and fragmented in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Americans came to attach notions of sublimity to technology and celebrity but remained attracted to a more complex vision of nature, one that oscillated between ecological perceptions of dense biodiversity and minimalist conceptions of emptiness and openness—what Wallace Stevens called the empty spirit / in vacant space. By the early 21st century, postmodern theorists advanced the idea that nature was culturally constructed. Lears asks: Has any coherent idea of sublimity survived?