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9 unusual facts about Winslow Homer


Arthur Quartley

The Tilers was a group of artists and writers, that included such luminaries as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.

Harper's Weekly

Illustrations were an important part of the Weekly’s content, and it developed a reputation for using some of the most renowned illustrators of the time, notably Winslow Homer, Granville Perkins and Livingston Hopkins.

In Front of Yorktown

In Front of Yorktown, 1862-1863 is an oil painting by Winslow Homer of men from McClellan's Army of the Potomac, before the Siege of Yorktown.

Minerva, New York

Winslow Homer, nineteenth-century painter, was a summer visitor for several years.

National Art Museum of Sport

Exhibits have featured internationally renowned artists including George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Elaine de Kooning, Morris Rosenfeld, and Andy Warhol, as well as contemporary and emerging artists.

Right and Left

Right and Left is a 1909 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Winslow Homer.

Salt Kettle, Bermuda

One of the termini of the ferries that ply the harbor, this scenic peninsula was the subject of several important paintings by American artist Winslow Homer.

Winslow Homer

Other late works include sporting scenes such as Right and Left, as well as seascapes absent of human figures, mostly of waves crashing against rocks in varying light.

In 1893, Homer painted one of his most famous "Darwinian" works, The Fox Hunt, which depicts a flock of starving crows descending on a fox slowed by deep snow.


Colby College Museum of Art

In the early 1950s, Adeline and Caroline Wing gave paintings by William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth to Colby College.

John Wilmerding

The collection included works by such well-known artists as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Henry Lane, John F. Peto, Joseph Decker, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, George Caleb Bingham, and John F. Kensett, as well as works by various artists who visited Maine's Mount Desert Island.

Lloyd Goodrich

He wrote extensively on American artists, including Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Raphael Soyer and Reginald Marsh.

Mary Benedict Cushing

As an art collector, she was known for her collection including Paul Cézanne, Winslow Homer, William Nicholson, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Walter Sickert, and Pavel Tchelitchew.

Maturin Murray Ballou

Illustrators who worked for Ballou included John Andrew, Charles A. Barry, W.L. Champney, John Chapin, William Croome, Charles Damoreau, George Devereux, Winslow Homer, Frank Leslie, John Manning, Emile Masson, Samuel Worcester Rowse, William Wade, Alfred Waud, William Waud.

Winslow Homer Studio

The Winslow Homer Studio is the historic studio and home of the artist Winslow Homer, which is located on what is now Winslow Homer Road on Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine.


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