Winslow Homer from poetry to fiction : the engraved works : illuminated with period photographs : fully illustrated checklist including interpretive notes / Reilly Rhodes.
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Butler Institute of American Art, Butler Trumbull Branch, Youngstown, Ohio, January 22, 2017-March 12, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412). " Winslow Homer: From Poetry to Fiction - the Engraved Works" : January 22-December 3, 2017, the Butler Institute of American Art, Butler Trumbull Branch, Howland Township, Ohio, United States.
Summary:
Winslow Homer was born gifted with an acute sense of observation that he could communicate in drawing with an almost Masaccio feeling of creating lifelike figures and movement. His continuous output of drawings and use of monochromatic tones served him well as it led up to the central decade of Homer's life when he began to incorporate color with watercolor and oil paint. Homer developed both personally and artistically with an innate sense of where he was in time-he always seemed keenly aware of the changes taking place around him. Illustrating for the pictorial press gave the young artist an opportunity to express his ideas. In the arts and literature, Homer found his calling. Poetry greatly appealed to him. The idea of "divining the heart" with an emotional feeling of a poem was a highly satisfying way of creating images that complemented the poet's words. Over a period of fourteen years, he produced drawings and engravings to accompany lines by the English poets alfred Lord Tennyson and William Barnes, and by American poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. The engravings of Winslow Homer capture the essence of nineteenth century America with great sensitivitiy and eloquence. In his art, everday moments are transformed into lasting, memorable images. Above all, he provided insight into what life was like during the transformation of American society struggling with political reform, slavery, immigration, suffrage and the rise of industrial and economic diversity." --publishers' description, page [2] of dust jacket.
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