Winslow Homer: American Vision, Close to Nature

Winslow Homer’s illustrations, watercolors, and oil paintings are among the most powerful and expressive of late 19th-century American art. He depicted happy scenes of fashionable ladies promenading along the seashore and children frolicking in a meadow after school. But he also gave us disquieting images of isolation and danger. His marine paintings illustrating the untamed, elemental forces of nature are some of the most intense and affecting images he created. This talk will acquaint you with this extraordinary American artist and many of his works and will prepare you well to enjoy the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s retrospective Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents that will be on view from April 11 through July 31, 2022.