Winslow Homer

On October 8, the Addison Gallery of American Art, affiliated with Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, will once again welcome the public after an extended summer closure for the restoration of its historic glass roof. In celebration of the reopening and of the museum's 80th birthday, the Addison is inviting the public to attend a festive evening, free of charge, on Friday, October 14, 6:30--8:30 pm. For additional information, please visit ...

In September 2012, the Portland Museum of Art will open the Winslow Homer Studio to the public. One of the most significant locations in the history of American art, the Studio, located at Prouts Neck, Maine, is where the great American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived and painted many of his masterpieces from 1883 until his death. A National Historic Landmark, the renovated Winslow Homer Studio will celebrate the artist’s life, encourage scholarship on Homer, and educate audiences ...

  Nearly twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Clarence Clough Buel and Robert Underwood Johnson, editors at Century Magazine, a monthly publication popular in the 19th and early 20th century, proposed a series of articles written by surviving participants from both sides of the conflict, North and South. The "Century War series" ran from 1884-1887 and proved to be so popular that the magazine's publishers decided to anthologize it. The publication also featured more than a thousand ...

This summer the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, will present never-before exhibited early drawings by the iconic American artist Will Barnet, a collection-based overview of the work of Winslow Homer, and the contemporary artist Sharon Lockhart’s selections from and installation of the collection to accompany her Maine-made Lunch Break works. The Colby Museum’s ongoing exhibitions dedicated to the work of James McNeill Whistler continue with a special exhibition of works by ...

This spring the Currier Museum of Art brings from its vault a magnificent collection of watercolor paintings as it presents From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art, from March 6 through June 7, 2010. The exhibition is a highlight of a year-long celebration of the museum's 80th anniversary that focuses on the strength and diversity of the Currier's collection. From Homer to Hopper is drawn from the impressive collection of watercolors that the ...

The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) will present Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era October 18, 2009 through January 24, 2010. Through excerpts of Whitman’s writing paired with some of the most important artworks of the mid-nineteenth century, Bold, Cautious, True creates an authentic window to America’s social and art history, with a poignant view of its bloodiest war. A champion of America and the individual, Whitman contributed to the ...