Winslow HomerAmerican Painter and Printmaker

Most famous for Watercolor Seascapes1836-1910

By Adrianna Thomas

•Born in Boston, Mass.

•Apprenticed to a Commercial Lithographer.

•Largely self-taught artist, but did spend a year in Paris studying Impressionism.

•Began freelance career as a commercial illustrator. He was sent to sketch Battle Scenes and Camp Life during Civil War.

After the Civil War, made transition from illustrator to painter. Took up oil painting producing major works in his NY studio.

Snap the Whip

Sailing the Catboat

•In 1875, Homer quit working as an illustrator. He spent 2 years in England where he rekindled his love for the sea.

•When he came back to the US, he moved to Maine’s coastline.

•During winter he traveled to the coast of Florida & the Caribbean to paint.

•He began using watercolors and revolutionized this medium.

The Red Canoe

Canoe in the Rapids, 1897

His work captures the

beauty of America’s Landscape

The Fog Warning, 1885

Breezing Up, 1876

Incoming Tide, Scarboro Maine, 1883

Sunlight on the Coast, 1890

After the Hurricane, 1899

The Gulf Stream, 1899

Undertow

Kissing the Moon, 1904