In a letter to his brother, Winslow Homer said of his surroundings, there is certainly some strange power that has an overlook on me, directing my life. That i am in the right place, there is no doubt. I have found Something Interesting to work at and time to do it. For almost three decades, Winslow Homer made his home on prouts neck, a rocky point just south of portland, maine. His house still stands on the high ground overlooking the sea. Visiting thelace where homer lived and worked is john wilmerding, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of art. Homers studio was a remodeled stable set about 200 yards from a large summerhouse that his older brother bought in 1883. Although homer was close to his family, he enjoyed the solitude his studio provided, but most of all, it was the ocean outside which reall made this place so important to him. The love of nature was very much a part of homers time. His family joined the growing number of americans in the late 19th century who could aff
In a letter to his brother, Winslow Homer said of his surroundings, there is certainly some strange power that has an overlook on me, directing my life. That i am in the right place, there is no doubt. I have found Something Interesting to work at and time to do it. For almost three decades, Winslow Homer made his home on prouts neck, a rocky point just south of portland, maine. His house still stands on the high ground overlooking the sea. Visiting thelace where homer lived and worked is john wilmerding, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of art. Homers studio was a remodeled stable set about 200 yards from a large summerhouse thatis older brother bought in 1883. Although homer was close to his family, he enjoyed the solitude his studio provided, but most of all, it was the ocean outside which reall made this place so important to him. The love of nature was very much a part of homers time. His family joined the growing number of americans in the late 19th century who could affor
For almost three decades, Winslow Homer made his home on prouts neck, a rocky point just south of portland, maine. His house still stands on the high ground overlooking the sea. Visiting the place where homer lived and worked is john wilmerding, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of art. Homers studio was a remodeled stable set about 200 yards from a large summerhouse that his older brother bought in 1883. Although homer was close to his family, he enjoyed the solitude his studio provided, but most of all, it was the ocean outside which reall made this place so important to him. The love of nature was very much a part of homers time. His family joined the growing number of americans in the late 19th century who could afford to escape the city heat and spend summers at the shore. Homers relatives on both sides had been engaged in shipping and trading for generations. His father, Charles Savage homer, carried on an import business. His mother, Henrietta Benson homer, was a watercolo
WALKING THROUGH “MARK ROTHKO” at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton this past October, I felt in body, mind, and surely soul the magical embrace of his paintings, their physical presence, their frontal pictoriality letting me into their depths, and a powerful affirmation of the horizon between heaven and earth.