MARINE LANDSCAPES & FARM LIFE SCENES – Winson Homer: The son of art who loved the sea

WINSON HOMER 1/3 – He was an American landscape painter, best known for his marine subjects. Winslow Homer was born in Boston (Massachusetts), and his mother was a amateur watercolorist, also for that his art talent was on display early. He is considered a preeminent figure in American art. Almost self-taught, he began his career like a illustrator (Homer’s career as an commercial illustrator lasted almost twenty years).

WINSON HOMER 2/3 – In 1859, in New York City, he opened its studio, but only after the civil war he turned his attention to young women and scenes of childhood. In 1867 he traveled to Paris, where he remained for almost a year. In this time, Homer believed that artists only should stutter in a language of their own. Throughout the 1870s he continued painting scenes of farm life. As a result of emotional turmoil, he became reclusive, living instead in Gloucester. He spent two years in the English coastal village of Northumberland, and back in the U.S. in 1882, where he showed his new English watercolors

WINSON HOMER 3/3 – As you can observe, comparing his paintings, starting from this moment there are change in style in his paintings. In 1883, Homer moved to Maine, living at his family’s estate, next to the ocean, where he painted many sea scenes. In 1893, he painted one of his most famous works “The Fox Hunt”. He died at the age of 74 in his studio. He was buried in Massachusetts, in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.