The Watercolors of Winslow Homer

By Miles J. Unger and Winslow Homer

Book Overview

The Watercolors of Winslow Homer offers a lively and beautifully illustrated survey of the artist's work in a medium he pursued with originality and consummate skill. Of his more than 700 watercolors, over 140 are reproduced here, dating from the 1870s to the turn of the century. Divided into ten thematic chapters chronicling Homer's life and artistic progress, the book begins with the delightful paintings he made of children in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and ends with works bathed in the humid atmosphere of the tropics. Along the way readers will discover Homer's unparalleled range of expression, from the somber works he painted along the stormy English coast to the poetic evocations of the Adirondacks forest.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393020479
• ISBN13: 9780393020472
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.3"