Winslow Homer: Subjects & Themes
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Wood Engraving
Homer's illustrations for Harper's Weekly, Every Saturday, Appleton's Journal and other periodicals, 1857-1875, cut on wood for the press.
147 worksAmerican Civil War
Homer's Civil War engravings, drawings, lithographs and paintings - camp life, picket duty, charges and the war's aftermath, drawn from his time as a Harper's Weekly artist-correspondent.
49 worksSoldiers
Homer's soldiers at work and at ease - sharpshooters, Zouaves, foragers and card players - in prints and paintings from the 1860s.
43 worksColor Lithograph
Homer's Campaign Sketches (1863) and Life in Camp (1864) lithographs of everyday soldier life, plus later colour facsimiles of his watercolours.
26 worksBoats
Catboats, dories, sloops and schooners from Gloucester, Nassau and Key West, and the dismasted craft of The Gulf Stream.
25 worksBoys
Barefoot schoolboys, young sailors and anglers - the boyhood scenes behind Snap the Whip and Breezing Up.
23 worksCivil War
22 worksBeaches
Bathers and promenaders at Long Branch and Newport, and the fisher girls of the New England shore.
18 worksCivil War Soldiers
18 worksUnion Army
Homer's wartime drawings and prints of Union troops: scouts, skirmish lines, supply trains, cavalry and men at rest.
17 worksChildren
Homer's children at school, at play and at work in 1870s rural America, in oils, watercolours and engravings.
14 worksGirls
13 worksHorses
Cavalry mounts, farm horses and carriage teams from Homer's war drawings, country scenes and oil studies.
12 worksTrees
11 worksLandscapes
10 worksDogs
9 worksWorking
9 worksAmusement
8 worksSeascapes
The surf, ledges and storms of Prouts Neck, Maine - the subject of Homer's most celebrated late paintings.
8 worksCarriages
7 worksFishing
Anglers, fly-fishers and net-haulers from the Adirondack lakes to the Atlantic shore, including Homer's celebrated sporting watercolours.
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