Maine Coast The MET(4)
Week 1 Waterscapes (901 – 905) Id 903
Winslow Homer American 1836 - 1910
Maine Coast , 1896
Oil on canvas
William Howe Downes, Homer’s first biographer, had firsthand knowledge of the coast at Prouts Neck, Maine. He described this canvas as follows: “The design is of a rigid simplicity. We are looking seaward from the cliffs at Prout’s Neck on a day of storm. At our feet the dark ledges are streaming with milky retreating foam, and just beyond them a monster wave raised its huge bulk as it comes shoreward with an exuberant look of tremendous power. Still further out to sea, in the gray mist, loom the oncoming lines of wave upon wave, until the horizon loses itself in a far turmoil of dimly seen billows”
Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911
11.116.1
From the placard: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan_Museum Art NYC MET American_Painting
.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm
Maine Coast The MET(4)
Week 1 Waterscapes (901 – 905) Id 903
Winslow Homer American 1836 - 1910
Maine Coast , 1896
Oil on canvas
William Howe Downes, Homer’s first biographer, had firsthand knowledge of the coast at Prouts Neck, Maine. He described this canvas as follows: “The design is of a rigid simplicity. We are looking seaward from the cliffs at Prout’s Neck on a day of storm. At our feet the dark ledges are streaming with milky retreating foam, and just beyond them a monster wave raised its huge bulk as it comes shoreward with an exuberant look of tremendous power. Still further out to sea, in the gray mist, loom the oncoming lines of wave upon wave, until the horizon loses itself in a far turmoil of dimly seen billows”
Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911
11.116.1
From the placard: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan_Museum Art NYC MET American_Painting
.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm