Winslow Homer Art Prints

Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)

12 museum-quality prints of works by Winslow Homer, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Winslow Homer, born in Boston in 1836, began as a commercial illustrator, apprenticed to a lithographer before spending nearly two decades supplying drawings to Harper’s Weekly, including reportage from the Civil War front. He took up watercolor in 1873, and the medium’s demand for speed and economy transformed his painting. Early canvases such as Mount Washington (1869) and Peach Blossoms (1878) belong to this first career of rural American subjects.

In 1881 Homer left unexpectedly for England, spending nearly two years at Cullercoats, a fishing village on the North Sea near Tynemouth, where the hard lives of the fisherfolk — recorded in works like The Return, Tynemouth (1881) — turned his art toward its great theme: human effort against an indifferent sea. On returning he settled permanently at Prouts Neck, on the Maine coast, painting its rocks and surf while traveling to the Adirondacks, Bermuda, and the Caribbean for the late watercolors, among them The Water Fan and After the Hurricane, Bahamas, on which much of his reputation rests.