Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer

The painting career of the until then illustrator Winslow Homer began in 1859 when he moved from Boston to New York. He took easel painting lessons from the French-born landscape a...

The watercolour artist Helena de Kay (1847‒1916) occupied one of the studios in the Tenth Street Studio Building where Homer also began to work in 1871. The progressive-minded youn...

Homer travelled to England in 1881 and, after spending a few weeks in London, settled in the village of Cullercoats near Tynemouth on the craggy North Sea coast, remaining there un...

In December 1890Winslow Homer wrote to his brother Charles, “I have got a fine picture called The Distress Signal a scene in mid ocean.” The painter was referring to the work in th...