See the Work
Where to experience Winslow Homer's works in person, and resources to learn more
The Gulf Stream, 1899
Permanent Collections
Institutions holding Winslow Homer's original works, plus the public-domain archive these images are drawn from.
The works in this archive come from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. All are in the public domain.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Holds The Gulf Stream, Snap the Whip, Prisoners from the Front, Northeaster and The Veteran in a New Field, along with Bahamas and Bermuda watercolours and a large group of wood engravings; open-access images are released under CC0.
Learn MoreNational Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Home to Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) and Right and Left, Civil War drawings and many watercolours from Cullercoats, the Adirondacks, Florida and the Caribbean.
Learn MoreCleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Holds Early Morning After a Storm at Sea, a set of Homer's 1880s etchings including Eight Bells, and an extensive run of his illustrated-weekly wood engravings, released under CC0.
Learn MoreAddison Gallery of American Art
Andover, Massachusetts
Owns the 1886 oil painting Eight Bells.
Learn MorePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bought The Fox Hunt (1893), Homer's largest painting, on its first exhibition.
Learn MoreButler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio
Holds the other 1872 version of Snap the Whip.
Learn MorePortland Museum of Art
Portland, Maine
Owns and maintains Homer's studio at Prouts Neck, a National Historic Landmark.
Learn MoreMajor Exhibitions
Notable retrospectives and exhibitions of Winslow Homer's work.
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eighty-eight oils and watercolours, the largest critical overview of Homer's art in more than a quarter century (April 11 - July 31, 2022).
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
The National Gallery, London
The London showing of the Met's Crosscurrents exhibition (September 10, 2022 - January 8, 2023).
Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line
Philadelphia Museum of Art
A focused exhibition built around Homer's 1884 painting of a dramatic rescue at sea.
Winslow Homer
National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A touring retrospective of more than two hundred works, curated by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. and Franklin Kelly, opening at the National Gallery of Art on October 15, 1995.
Winslow Homer Watercolors
National Gallery of Art, Washington
A survey of Homer's watercolours, later shown at the Amon Carter Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition
National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A mid-century retrospective that opened in Washington in November 1958 and travelled to the Met early in 1959.
Books & Films About Winslow Homer
Essential resources for understanding Winslow Homer's life and work.
Essential Reading
The pioneering scholarly study, published for the Whitney Museum of American Art and long regarded as the foundation of Homer research.
An account of Homer's life and work at Prouts Neck, Maine, during his last quarter-century.
A study of Homer's art as a sustained act of looking, published by the University of California Press.
A focused study of the watercolours and paintings Homer made in the English fishing village of Cullercoats in 1881-82.
Films & Other Resources
Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art's survey of Homer's watercolours, published with Yale University Press.
Catalogue of the 1995-96 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with contributions by Judith Walsh and Charles Brock.
Catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2022 exhibition, with essays by Daniel Immerwahr, Christopher Riopelle and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.
Online Resources
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Browse 652 Winslow Homer works from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
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