2
Portfolios%3D%22563%22%20and%20Sort_Artist%3D%22Homer,%20Winslow%22
Watercolor
Paddling at Dusk
Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
15 1/8 x 21 7/16 in. (38.4 x 54.5 cm)
.
.
.
overall
horizontal
frame
.
.
.
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
1892
1892
1892
1800-1900, 19th century, figure, Lockhart Collection, seascapes, watercolors
Watercolor
The remote North Woods Club in the Adirondacks was a favorite retreat for Winslow Homer. There, he painted over a hundred oils and watercolors and found congenial friends, including 22-year-old Ernest Yalden, son of members of the club and the subject of this painting. Yalden recalled Homer’s interest in capturing the play of light flashing off the blades as he paddled his own self-built, light-weight canoe.
The year after Homer painted him in his canoe, Yalden graduated with a civil engineering degree and started a trade school in New York City for uneducated Jewish immigrants. He founded the Mineralogy Club of New York and trained men to be navigators during World War I. An authority on sun-dialing, he became an accomplished amateur astronomer who built an observatory in his back yard.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
upper right
1984.51
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
84.51TR1
Transparency
Memorial Art Gallery
4 x 5
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
84.51SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
glossy
full
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
negative
full
4x5
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
84.51DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
6/23/2000
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/84.51_A1.jpg
84.51DI2
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
84.51TR2
transparency
4 x 5
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
M425_p109.tif
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/SeeingAmerica/M425_p109.tif
Painting
The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog
Winslow Homer, (Boston, MA, 1836 - 1910, Prout's Neck, ME)
Homer, Winslow
United States
1836 - 1910
Male
24 x 30 1/4 in. (61 x 76.8 cm)
.
.
.
with frame
frame
Oil
Oil
1894
1894
1894
1800-1900, 19th century, paintings, seascapes, weather & water
Painting
In the course of his long and distinguished career, Winslow Homer shifted his focus from robust descriptions of American life to studies of interaction between man and the powerful forces of nature, particularly the ocean. This evocative painting of his studio at his family’s compound on the coast of Maine in Prout’s Neck, near Portland, is considered one of Homer’s most masterful works.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
A foggy day on the coastal peninsula of Prout's Neck, Maine, inspired Winslow Homer to paint one of his most elegant and contemplative works. His studio and family home stand silhouetted between the darker cliffs in the foreground and the paler sky. The painting's composition balances strong diagonal and horizontal elements in the lower half with a monolithic sky punctuated by a circle of sun.
Homer was known for his many paintings of rural America, as well as his illustrations of the Civil War. In 1883, Homer left New York City, where he had been living, and settled permanently in Prout's Neck. During his years there, he produced some of the most thrilling marine paintings in the history of American art.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
lower rightremoved, kept in file, Exhibition label for Panama-Pacific International Expositionremoved, kept in file
1941.32
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
41.32TR1
Transparency
Memorial Art Gallery
4 x 5
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
41.32SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
neg
4x5
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
glossy
detail
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
neg
detail
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
glossy
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
41.32DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
6/23/2000
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/41.32_A1.jpg
41.32SL2
slide
detail-rocks
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
41.32SL3
slide
detail-waves
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
41.32SL4
slide
detail-sun
2 x 2
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
negative
color
1 x 1
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
glossy
8x10
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
41.32DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
6/23/2000
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Graphics/blank.gif
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/SeeingAmerica/M425_p116.tif
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/SeeingAmerica/M425_p116(10).tif
41.32DI#3
digital image
12/4/2013
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/41.32_A3.jpg
41.32DI#4
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
9/19/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/41.32_A3.jpg