1895, Winslow Homer, Cannon Rock -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: For his last three decades, Homer lived at Prouts Neck, Maine, making his studio view of coastal rocks and pounding surf the primary subject of his art. Intent on capturing the changing mood and motion of the ocean in increasingly bold brushwork and keen detail, he focused on the power of nature and its profound mysteries. One critic marveled that Homer presented the "waves of the sea, as never before so studied, observed, suggested, and characterized." These late seascapes had a formative influence on modernist artists who gravitated to Maine in the early twentieth century.
1895, Winslow Homer, Cannon Rock -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: For his last three decades, Homer lived at Prouts Neck, Maine, making his studio view of coastal rocks and pounding surf the primary subject of his art. Intent on capturing the changing mood and motion of the ocean in increasingly bold brushwork and keen detail, he focused on the power of nature and its profound mysteries. One critic marveled that Homer presented the "waves of the sea, as never before so studied, observed, suggested, and characterized." These late seascapes had a formative influence on modernist artists who gravitated to Maine in the early twentieth century.