1 / 20

Julia Raffa

Winslow Homer. Julia Raffa. All About Me. Artist’s name: Winslow Homer Born: February 24, 1836 Boston, Massachusetts Died: September 29, 1910 (age 74) Prouts Neck, Maine Nationality: American. Family Life. Charles Savage Homer father businessman left family and fled to Europe

amos
Download Presentation

Julia Raffa

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Winslow Homer Julia Raffa

  2. All About Me • Artist’s name: • Winslow Homer • Born: • February 24, 1836Boston, Massachusetts • Died: • September 29, 1910 (age 74)Prouts Neck, Maine • Nationality: • American

  3. Family Life • Charles Savage Homer • father • businessman • left family and fled to Europe • Henrietta Benson Homer • mother • gifted amateur watercolorist • Homer's first teacher • close relationship

  4. Education • never received a formal artistic education • art lessons from his mother • apprentice to lithographer, John H. Bufford. • became a freelance illustrator for Harper’s Weekly and Ballou’s Pictorial • Harper’s Weekly commissioned Homer as a visual journalist to cover the Civil War

  5. Influences & Inspiration • Most of his works are scenes of nature • He learned about the difficulties of the fishermen’s life when he moved to Prout's Neck, Maine • Studied the sea • wave structure, strength of the surges, and the beauty of the climactic bursts of white foam • Found inspiration in the American scene in the sea • Early works captured horror of Civil War, and later on his work captured the peace and serenity of the Maine Coast

  6. On the Trail, c. 1892,

  7. Girl Carrying a Basket, 1882

  8. Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873-1876

  9. Movement & Style • Impressionism • Luminous, luminism • Realism, representation, realist, naturalist • Known for • Genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration • Watercolorist • Characterized by directness, realism, objectivity, and splendid color

  10. Salt Kettle, Bermuda, 1899

  11. Casting, Number Two,1894

  12. Native Huts, Nassau, 1885

  13. Incoming Tide, Scarboro Maine, 1883

  14. Right and Left, 1909

  15. Success & Acheievments Awards Exhibitions • 1901Gold Medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY • 1902 Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA • 1902Gold Medal, Charleston Exhibition, NC • 1904 Gold Medal, St. Louis Exposition, MO • 1863-88 National Academy of Design, NY, NY • 1864-82 Brooklyn Art Association, NY • 1867 Paris Exposition, France • 1877-1909 Boston Art Club, MA • 1888, 1893-97, 1900-1910 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA • 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL • 1900 Paris Exposition, France • 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, NY • 1902 Charleston Exhibition, SC • 1904 St. Louis Exposition, MO • 1907-08 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. • 1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY • 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY • 1999 Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY • 2005 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  16. Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903

  17. Red Shirt, Homosassa, Florida, 1904

  18. Fun Fact • On May 5, 1998 Bill Gates paid $30 million for Lost on the Grand Banks, the last major seascape by Winslow Homer

  19. Lost on the Grand Banks (1885)

  20. Credits & Citations • http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/ArtistKeywords.aspx?artist=21592 • http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300065558 • http://www.sullivangoss.com/winslow_homer/ • http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=21592 • http://www.winslowhomer.org/ • http://www.cuchicago.edu/Documents/Academics/College%20of%20Arts%20and%20Sciences/art/Art%20Lessons/1st_09_Winslow-Homer_The-Country-School.pdf • http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homersplash.htm

More Related