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Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck

Philip C. Beam

Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a breadth that few other artists have achieved. This is a lively, intimate, and immensely readable portrait of the artist that throws a new light on Homer's life and puts it in fresh perspective, concentrating on Homer's years at Prout’s Neck on Maine’s rugged coast, where he would create his finest paintings, from 1883 until his death in 1920.

Down East Books

Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-60893-348-8 • Paperback • November 2014 • $18.95 • (£14.99)

978-1-60893-349-5 • eBook • November 2014 • $11.99 • (£8.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers, Art / Individual Artists / General, History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck

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Paperback

eBook

Summary

Summary

Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a breadth that few other artists have achieved. This is a lively, intimate, and immensely readable portrait of the artist that throws a new light on Homer's life and puts it in fresh perspective, concentrating on Homer's years at Prout’s Neck on Maine’s rugged coast, where he would create his finest paintings, from 1883 until his death in 1920.

Details

Details

Down East Books

Pages: 304 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-60893-348-8 • Paperback • November 2014 • $18.95 • (£14.99)

978-1-60893-349-5 • eBook • November 2014 • $11.99 • (£8.99)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers, Art / Individual Artists / General, History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Author

Author

Philip C. Beam was the Chairman of Bowdoin College’s art department. Beam died in 2005.

Reviews

Reviews

“A fine art book, very rewarding for general reading also, this will be a standard work.” (Previous Edition Praise)
— Publishers Weekly

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