Winslow Homer - American Painter
2-D Design – Watercolor Landscapes
•Dates of life ____________________________________________
•Born in ___________________________________________________________________________
•Landscape and Marine painter
•(Mostly) Self-taught
•Began as ________________________________________________
- First painted in ___________ then moved on to __________________________
•Age 19 – Homer apprenticed to ________________________________________________________________________________
•1857 – joined _______________________________ magazine as an __________________________________________________
Harper magazine sent him to ____________________________________________________________________________________
He sketched ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After the war, Homer turned his attention to
After exhibiting at the National Academy of Design, Homer
finally traveled to __________________________________________.
There he practiced:
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Painted images that depicted
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Throughout 1870’s
He oil painted mostly _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Early Watercolors
Homer started painting with watercolors on a regular basis in ______________________________________________
Critics thought that they were ___________________________________________________________________________________
After 1880, he focused on painting ___________________ women instead of
________________________ women.
He began a series of watercolors based on ____________________________________________
In Mending the Nets, he conveys _____________________________________________________
In 1883, Homer moved to Prouts Neck, Maine and lived _____________________________
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During the rest of the mid-1880s, Homer painted
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The Sea paintings established Homer as
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Did Homer become popular and/or rich over his paintings at this time? ___________________________________
Other notable pieces, which depict man’s struggle against nature:
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Winters of 1884-5 - Homer went to ____________________________________________________________________________
He replaced the _________________________ of Prouts Neck with the _________________________ of the Caribbean,
and the ________________ New Englanders with the leisurely __________________ natives.
Homer also found inspiration in a number of summer trips from 1870 – 1910 to _________________________
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At what age did Homer finally reach financial stability? ___________________________
Homer continued producing excellent watercolors, mostly on trips to
The Key West watercolors are among the artist’s most _______________________________________________________.
Homer died in ____________ at the age of ____________ _ in his Prouts Neck studio
Four Boys on Beach
Fog Warning
Snap the Whip