Cloud Shadows, Winslow Homer
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Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 61 x 71.1 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 24 x 28 in
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Throughout his career, American artist Winslow Homer was drawn to coastal communities in New England, the Northeast coast of the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean. He represented the everyday lives of the fishermen and women as they labored, worked together, and rested. In this scene, painted near his home of Prouts Neck, Maine, Homer shows a moment of rest for a fisherman chatting with his niece as the fleeting movement of clouds dapples the beach with light.
Sallie Casey Thayer purchased three works by Winslow Homer from art galleries in Chicago and New York for her collection. Thayer obtained Cloud Shadows in February 1912, two years after the artist’s death. Her acquisitions came at a time when collectors, critics, scholars, and museums were establishing Homer as a distinctive and prominent American artist.
Later in his career, Homer moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. Often set along Maine’s rugged coast, Homer’s painted landscapes investigate the relationships between humans or animals and the natural elements. A local fisherman and his niece posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by sharing the temporary shade and their conversation.
Cloud Shadows can be found in the exhibition This Land.
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Well after Homer established himself as an illustrator and achieved enduring fame as a painter of everyday life in America, he moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. His later landscapes often investigate relationships between humans or animals and the elements and are frequently set along Maine’s rugged coast. A local fisherman and his niece posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by the conversation and temporary shade they share.
Well after Homer established himself as an illustrator and achieved enduring fame as a painter of everyday life in America, he moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. His later landscapes often investigate relationships between humans or animals and the elements and are frequently set along Maine’s rugged coast. A local fisherman and his niece posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by the conversation and temporary shade they share.
Well after Homer established himself as an illustrator and achieved enduring fame as a painter of everyday life in America, he moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. His later landscapes often investigate relationships between humans or animals and the elements and are frequently set along Maine’s rugged coast. A local fisherman and his neice posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by the conversation and temporary shade they share.
Well after Homer established himself as an illustrator and achieved enduring fame as a painter of everyday life in America, he moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. His later landscapes often investigate relationships between humans or animals and the elements and are frequently set along Maine’s rugged coast. A local fisherman and his neice posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by the conversation and temporary shade they share.
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"This Land," Mar-2014, Kate Meyer
Well after Homer established himself as an illustrator and achieved enduring fame as a painter of everyday life in America, he moved to Prouts Neck, in Scarborough, Maine. His later landscapes often investigate relationships between humans or animals and the elements and are frequently set along Maine’s rugged coast. A local fisherman and his neice posed for Cloud Shadows, in which Homer captures a fleeting moment with his subjects united by the conversation and temporary shade they share.
