Winslow Homer (United States, 1836–1910), Artists Sketching in the White Mountains, 1868, oil on panel, 9 7/16 x 15 13/16 inches. Portland Museum of Art.

The relationship between Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and the Portland Museum of Art is long-standing and intimate. Homer exhibited at the Museum in his lifetime and in the course of the 20th century the Museum has become a symbolic home for the artist. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death, this exhibition will showcase the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Featuring 28 works, it will be the first time since 1988 that all of these works will be on view in the Charles Shipman Payson Building. In 2006, the Museum purchased his studio at Prouts Neck and is currently involved in a major conservation and restoration project at that storied site. The Winslow Homer Studio restoration will be completed in 2012.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum has launched a website of highlights from its Winslow Homer illustrations collection. See it now.

Funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In the News

‘Bob Keyes: Home of Homer expertise’
The Press Herald, July 25, 2010

‘The art of Winslow Homer’
WCSH6 207, July 19, 2010

‘Stirrings of New Art Emerge in Winslow Homer’s Maine’
Artinfo.com, July 13, 2010

‘This Must Be the Place’
The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2010

‘Portland Museum of Art showcasing rarely seen masterpieces of preeminent landscape painter and printmaker’
Lewiston Sun Journal, June 28, 2010

‘Homer’s home’
The Portland Phoenix, June 16, 2010

‘Winslow Homer’s Odyssey’
Down East Magazine, July 2010

‘Maine hits a Homer run’
Maine Sunday Telegram, May 30, 2010

‘Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place’
Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, Summer 2010

‘Winslow Homer, Web designer’
The Forecaster, May 24