Winslow Homer Prints
1836–1910 · American · American Realism
Wall art by Winslow Homer, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
36 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was born in Boston in February 1836 and was apprenticed at nineteen to the lithographer J. H. Bufford; apart from a few drawing classes he taught himself to paint. From about 1857 he worked as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly, which sent him to the front during the Civil War, and his first paintings came out of that experience; he was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1865. Through the 1870s he painted farm children, summer resorts and sailing, as in Snap the Whip of 1872 and Breezing Up of 1873 to 1876, and from 1873 worked regularly in watercolour, a medium he made his own. A stay of nearly two years in the fishing village of Cullercoats on the English coast in 1881 to 1882 turned him toward the sea and the people who worked it, and in 1883 he settled at Prouts Neck on the Maine coast, where he spent the rest of his life painting the Atlantic in all weathers, with winter trips to Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas. The Gulf Stream of 1899, a Black sailor adrift among sharks, is in the Metropolitan Museum. He died at Prouts Neck in September 1910. Homer painted weather, water and light without rhetoric, and the pictures hang with the same plain force.