HOMER, Winslow
(b. 1836, Boston, d. 1910, Prouts Neck)

Northeaster

1895
Oil on canvas, 87 x 128 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Homer was a man with an immensely perceptive eye and a distinctive vision, and this picture is one of his masterpieces. The painting captures the essence of the wind whipped waves and rocky shore along the coast of Maine, where he spent the last 25 years of his life portraying the constant struggle between man and the turbulent ocean.




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