In the Bedroom (2001)
Hard Tellin’… is less an attempt to define Maine, or Maine in the movies, than an opportunity to celebrate four great films that accomplish something most art should aspire to: they capture the ineffable in a place and its people at a particular moment in time. They get at something unique and a bit hard to define about us. They feel, for lack of a better word, honest.
Tours begin at the Portland Museum of Art, where patrons can look at some of Homer’s paintings. Then a shuttle bus whisks visitors to Prout’s Neck to take in the studio and the yard that slopes down to the ocean. It is a step back in time to a place that feels surprisingly relatable.
Read MoreVisitors get a newly minted field guide with information about Homer, his works, a chronology of his life, a family tree, notes on the area’s geology and local flora and fauna, and so on.
Read MoreIn 2006, the Portland Museum of Art purchased the property and spent six years renovating and restoring the building.
Read MoreThe reinterpreted Winslow Homer Studio experience has updated amenities, interactive activities, and immersive experiences for the 2023 season!
Read MoreThe artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.
Read MoreIn this moment of racial reckoning, we cannot continue viewing Homer’s masterpiece as an apolitical seascape painting.
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Museum showcases the 19th-century artist in an exhibition of frank, profoundly affecting pictures.
Read More“Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents,” a compelling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized by the Met’s Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount with Christopher Riopelle of the National Gallery, London, examines almost 90 of the artist’s works within current political and social contexts.
Read MoreThe Met’s show, which was organized by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount and will travel to the National Gallery in London, is the largest overview of Homer’s career since a 1995 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Read MoreThis 1863 picture by Winslow Homer, thought to be his earliest completed effort in oil paints, marks a turning point in modern warfare. For all its plain-spoken simplicity, it is one of the most morally anguished, ominously charged paintings I know.
Read MoreIn this video, Diana Greenwold, Curator of American Art, and Dana Byrd, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College, come together on Zoom to discuss Winslow Homer’s vexing 1875 painting, Uncle Ned at Home.
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