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During the 1870s Winslow Homer emerged as the country’s leading innovator in watercolor, although he had begun to experiment with the medium only at the beginning of the decade. Best known today for his depictions of the sea, between 1874 and 1879 the self-taught artist concentrated on images of the human figure. Woman Sewing is from a series of watercolors Homer created of solitary women engaged in domestic and leisure activities. Often, these initially simple, straightforward images of daily life are invested with emotion by the artist’s handling and technique. Far from the tranquil image implied by the title, this drawing is psychologically charged with tension and uncertainty. . . .
:: Eric Denker, Curator of Prints and Drawings Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Prints and Drawings
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Winslow Homer’s position as a great American artist was secured in the mid-1890s by the series of epic seascapes he produced at Prout’s Neck, Maine. Among this group, A Light on the Sea is notable as the artist’s final conception to include a female figure. (Although Early Evening [Freer Collection], an image that includes two women, is dated 1907, it was conceived and largely painted in 1881.) The woman pictured here balances on the rocks near the water’s edge. With her head turned sharply to her left and hands firmly planted at her waist, the stalwart column of her form, positioned left of center, contrasts against the horizontal, fluid seascape. The title’s light on the sea shimmers intensely in the middle ground, joining sea and sky. . . .
- Margaret C. Conrads, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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, Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Prints and Drawings
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