Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, young boys sailing carefree on open waters: Winslow Homer’s raw, evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American art. Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea offers here a fresh exploration of Homer and his career-long preoccupation with the relationship between humans and the waters that define their world. 

This exhibition catalog organizes Homer’s sea-centered works by four periods that correspond to geographic…