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Winslow Homer
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Winslow Homer
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Winslow Homer
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Winslow Homer
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Winslow Homer
It is hard to imagine that Winslow Homer paints pristine portraits of society women when I see his Northeaster. It is similar with his contemporary John Singer Sargent, about whom I will be posting in my next blog.
Homer spent two years in the English fishing village of Cullercoats, with its harsh climate and hard working inhabitants. He was also in Bermuda painting the larger-than-life tropical flowers, in watercolor, which gave them a surprising delicacy. But exotica is the same, whether in the remote English fishing village or the tropical gardens of the Caribbean, and Homer's paintings certainly convey that. And nature's roaring waves are the dramatic extreme to civilized socetiey's serene gardens and quiet interiors.