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2017 DCA Art Lecture Series Series Sponsor Winslow Homer: Four Perspectives

Winslow Homer, , 1886. Oil on canvas, 25.2 x 30.1 in. Addison Gallery Registration information

Series admission: Man and Nature, Men and Women Includes 4 lectures with gourmet luncheons in the Addison’s Homer Paintings $175 DCA members, $195 public Thursday, October 12th Single lecture with gourmet luncheon Winslow Homer, Flower Garden and Bungalow, 1899. Watercolor 11:00am $50 DCA members, $55 public and graphite on off-white wove paper. 13 15/16 x 20 15/16 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art Single lecture-only admission (walk-ins welcome

Susan Faxon, Associate Director and but reservations recommended) Curator, Addison Gallery $20 DCA members, $25 public Presented by: The Addison Gallery of American Art at Prepayment is required for all lunch reservations Kevin Murphy in Andover, , by noon on the Friday preceding each lecture, and Williams College Museum of Art is noteworthy for its impressive collection of may be purchased at dariendca.org or through the American art. The magnanimous gift of alumnus DCA office at 203-655-9050 ext. 10. Williamstown, MA Thomas Cochran in 1931 included a Classical Revival building, endowments, and a founding Specially designed luncheons by Diane Browne Susan Faxon collection of masterworks of American art by Catering. Luncheons follow the lecture. Addison Gallery of American Art Copley, Stuart, Eakins, Sargent, Prendergast, Andover, MA and Hassam, as well as four paintings and seven P E N T watercolors by Winslow Homer. H O E R Marc Simpson, Art Historian S T A T I A N The four Homer oil paintings that the Addison E Homer Scholar browne & co. 865 Post Road, Darien, Connecticut 203.656.1920 owns remain today among the most treasured dbrowneandco.com H O G Stephanie Herdrich M N I works in the collection. In fact each spring, E R O F TE D A IA C graduates return to the halls of the Addison NE BROWNE Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Homer’s iconic Eight Bells. Why is this painting so compelling to those who viewed it as school boys? What does this painting and 274 Middlesex Road the Addison’s other three paintings say about Darien, CT 06820 Homer’s concept of mankind’s relationship to 203-655-9050 [email protected] nature, and the artist’s perception of men and dariendca.org women? Winslow Homer, West Point, Prout’s Neck, 1900. Oil on canvas, Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 30 1/16 x 48 1/8 in. The x 49 1/8 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Winslow Homer, The Bright Side, 1865. Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 x 17 in. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Painting for Money: Winslow Homer Homer’s Humor: or, The Obtuse Winslow Homer in the Caribbean as Entrepreneur Bard Hiding His Light under a Bushel Thursday, October 5th Thursday, October 19th Thursday, October 26th 11:00am 11:00am 11:00am

Kevin M. Murphy, Eugénie Prendergast Marc Simpson, noted Homer scholar, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Assistant Curator of American Art at WCMA independent art historian, co-author Research Curator of American Winslow Homer has often been described as with Colm Tóibín, and Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art the quintessential American artist of the 19th American Painting, exhibition at the century. In his work and his life he seemed to Between 1884 and 1905, Winslow Homer often be uncompromising – he developed a unique Morgan Library through September 10 sought refuge from harsh Maine winters in and powerful Realist style to depict the forces the Caribbean. He was particularly fond of of nature and chose to live in rural Maine, When we think of Winslow Homer, we often , which he visited three times close to the roiling sea that was often the think of a misanthropic recluse on the coast and described as “the best place I have ever subject of his brush but far from the center of of Maine. As with all generalizations, however, found.” His travels in the region inspired the the American art world in New York. However, this characterization simplifies and flattens ambitious and iconic , The Gulf when it came time to sell his work, he was the individual; in fact the artist had a wicked Stream, as well as a considerable body of quite compromising. Homer often repainted sense of humor, one that was often in evidence work in watercolor, ranging from the or altered work that proved difficult to sell, throughout his career. We will explore some decorative and seemingly touristic to more responding directly to criticism in the press examples of his wit in words and pictures. It is complex images of the inhabitants of the or from art dealers. This talk will delve into also true, however, that humor is challenging to region as they fish for sharks or harvest Homer’s marketing of his work, and discuss how translate from place to place or from one era sponges. This talk will consider the The Gulf and why he altered beloved paintings now in to another. To demonstrate this, we will cast a Stream in relationship to Homer’s Caribbean the collections of such museums as the Clark Art sustained look on one of Homer’s most important watercolors, his broader career, and the Institute and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. early paintings, The Bright Side, and responses social-political history of the late-nineteenth to it. century.