Research Catalog

Title

Winslow Homer / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Franklin Kelly with contributions by Judith Walsh and Charles Brock.

Author

Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., 1933-2016.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kelly, Franklin.
• National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

420 pages : illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

• The book discusses and reproduces more than two hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings that span Homer's career, all of which are discussed in entries by Cikovsky and Kelly. It begins with the Civil War paintings that first brought Homer's remarkable artistic mentality to public attention, in which he movingly expressed the profound implications the war held for the nation.
• Homer's interest in national themes is further explored in his works of the later 1860s and 1870s, which embraced a wide spectrum of American life. His shift toward more idealized and heroic imagery and his withdrawal to a solitary life at Prout's Neck, Maine, in the 1880s are discussed as turning points leading to the great achievements of his last two decades.
• After considering his beautiful late watercolors of the Tropics and the Adirondacks, and his monumental Prout's Neck seascapes, the book concludes with a reassessment of the tragic, almost visionary paintings of his last years. The book is also the catalogue for a major exhibition on Homer's works, opening at the National Gallery of Art on 15 October 1995 and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Subject

• Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 > Exhibitions
• Nationalism in art > Exhibitions

Note

• "Exhibition dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington 15 October 1995-28 January 1996, Boston Museum of Fine Arts 21 February-26 May 1996, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17 June -22 September 1996"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The School of War / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- Modern and National / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- Reconstruction / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- A Process of Change / Franklin Kelly -- Something More than Meets the Eye / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- Innovation in Homer's Late Watercolors / Judith Walsh -- Time and Narrative Erased / Franklin Kelly -- Good Pictures / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- Chronology / Charles Brock -- Exhibitions in Homer's Lifetime / Charles Brock.

ISBN

0894682172

LCCN

95019025

OCLC

• 32508790
• ocm32508790

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries