Come away book

As he attempted to reconcile his affinity for traditional subject matter with his increasingly modern aesthetic vision Coming Away complicates our understanding of his work and convincingly argues that it has cosmopolitan underpinnings than previously thought Published in association with the Worcester Art Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibition Worcester Art Museum 11 11 17 02 04 18 Milwaukee Art Museum 03 02 18 05 20 18 Coming Away Winslow Homer and EnglandThis is a gorgeous book We were lucky to see the exhibition in Worchester last December So the images in this book are totally 5 stars There are beautiful reproductions of important Homer images The essays.

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A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer 1836 1910 is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic The eighteen months Homer spent in England in 1881 and 1882 studying the work of masters such as J M W Turner and Lawrence Alma Tadema and exploring the landscape of coastal villages irrevocably shaped his creative identity This beautifully designed and produced publication explores Homer s time in England and how it influenced his art on the other hand are narrowly scholarly and leave important questions unanswered about the time that Homer spent in England e. Come away play why did he chose the particular part of England what was his daily life like there etc I would downgrade the book to 4 stars because of the arid nature of the essays but the images are so great that it still deserves 5 stars 0300229909