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Published by Yale University Press, 2012
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Published by Yale University Press/Portland Museum of Art, New Haven, CT/Portland, ME, 2012
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 10.75 inches by 8.25 inches. xiii, [1], 169, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations (color). Exhibition Checklist, Bibliography. Index. No dust jacket present. Foreword by Mark H. C. Bessire. Includes fascinating essays, including We…atherbeaten by Thomas A. Denenberg, "The Right Place": Winslow Homer and the Development of Prouts Neck by Kenyon C. Bolton III, The Architecture of Homer's Studio by James F. O'Gorman, North Atlantic Drift: A Meditation on Winslow Homer and French Painting by Erica E. Hirshler, :You Must Wait, and Wait Patiently": Winslow Homer's Prouts Neck Marines by Marc Simpson. Thomas Andrew Denenberg is the director of Shelburne Museum. Prior to moving to Vermont in 2011, he served as the chief curator and deputy director of the Portland Museum of Art, curator of American art at Reynolds House, and curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. He is the author of Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America, Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, and he edited and/or contributed to Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, Backstage Pass: Rock and Roll Photography, Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England, Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine, Wyeth Vertigo, and Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum. A celebration of the American painter's life and work in the region he loved best. In 1883 American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) moved his studio from New York City to Prouts Neck, a slip of coastline just south of Portland, Maine. Here, over the course of twenty-five years, Homer produced his most celebrated and emotionally powerful paintings, which often depicted the dramatic views and storm-strewn skies around his home. Homer's influence and the Prouts Neck area would have a profound effect on the rise of a new American modernism, inspiring the artists who followed him. This beautifully illustrated catalogue celebrates Homer's legacy at Prouts Neck, and documents the Portland Museum of Art's six-year conservation project to preserve the Winslow Homer Studio, the former carriage house in which Homer lived and worked. Photographs of the studio and site, never before open to the public, highlight views that are recognizable as the subject of so many of Homer's paintings. Essays by leading scholars examine his iconic masterpieces; his artistic development in Prouts Neck; the architecture of his studio; his relationship to French painting; and the full range of his marine paintings. Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. Homer's career as an illustrator lasted nearly twenty years. He contributed illustrations of Boston life and rural New England life to magazines such as Ballou's Pictorial and Harper's Weekly at a time when the market for illustrations was growing rapidly and fads and fashions were changing quickly. His early works, mostly commercial wood engravings of urban and country social scenes, are characterized by clean outlines, simplified forms, dramatic contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupingsâ"qualities that remained important throughout his career. His quick success was mostly due to this strong understanding of graphic design and also to the adaptability of his designs to wood engraving. Harper's sent Homer to the front lines of the American Civil War (1861-1865), where he sketched battle scenes and camp life, the quiet moments as well as the chaotic ones. His initial sketches were of the camp, commanders, and army of the famous Union officer, Major General George B. McClellan, at the banks of the Potomac River in October 18.
