Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Standing in the brilliant sunlight of midday, a young woman blows a metal horn to summon the farmhands in the nearby…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Oil on panel, 14.29 x 22.86 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Art Institute…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Nooning c.1872 Oil on canvas, 33.8 x 49.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Croquet Scene 1866 Oil on canvas, 40.3 × 66.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of America’s foremost painters, Winslow Homer began his career as an illustrator during the Civil War. In the late 1860s, he turned…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Northeaster 1895; reworked by 1901 Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 127 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On the Maine coast, a “nor’easter” is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dad’s Coming! 1873 Oil on wood, 22.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled…
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890) Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne 1860 Oil on canvas, 47 3/4 x 31.7 in. Private collection See also: • Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Pluie, Auvers (Rain, Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50.3 x 100.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The atmosphere recalls one of Van Gogh‘s favourite poems, Longfellow‘s ‘The Rainy Day’: ‘My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue de village (Village street) c.1917 Oil on canvas, 53 x 76.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This view of around 1917 depicts the suburb of Sannois in the north-west of Paris, an area which the artist painted repeatedly…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The morning after the storm c.1840–1845 Oil on canvas, 32.6 x 54.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This seascape of 1840–45 and its companion picture, ‘The Storm‘, were apparently inspired by the great storm of 21…