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.

Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place

June 5 through September 6, 2010

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 approximately 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.

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

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