The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation. Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades. After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years. The book is also the catalogue for a major exhibition on Homer's works, opening at the National Gallery of Art on 15 October 1995 and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Winslow Homer

Arts & Photography

Kelly, Franklin

Cikovsky Jr., Nicolai

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Offers a brief profile of the nineteenth century American artist, looks at his major paintings, watercolors, and etchings, and discusses influences on his work

Winslow Homer (Library of American Art)

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Shows a variety of landscapes and pastoral scenes by the nineteenth-century American artist, and includes critical essays on his work

George Inness (Library of American Art)

A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat is a primary text on the 19th century American artist J. Alden Weir and his Branchville, CT home, now known as Weir Farm National Historic Site. The 116-page soft-bound, 9" x 12" catalogue that accompanied the same-titled exhibition, is amply illustrated in color and black and white. With an introduction by Nicolai Cikovsky, Curator of American and British Art at the National Gallery of Art, essays by the Exhibition Curators Hildegard Cummings and Harold Spencer, both leading experts on Weir, and by Elizabeth Milroy, Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University, A Connecticut Place presents Weir's art within the social, intellectual and physical environment in which it was produced. It also presents Weir's Branchville home as a creative focus for his art and a gathering place for many prominent members of the turn-of-the-century American art community, among them Childe Hassam, John Twachtman, Emil and Denis Carlsen, Albert Pinkham Ryder, John Ferguson Weir and John Singer Sargent.

A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat

Painting

Weir Farm Trust in collaborati

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Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer (Library of American Art)

George Inness (Library of American Art)

A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, An American Painter's Rural Retreat