Artist:
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836 - 1910)
Gloucester Harbor
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
Date: 1873
Dimensions:
10 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (27 × 39.4 cm)
Accession number: 92.3.10
Curatorial RemarksPublished in Harper's Weekly, 1860s and 1870s;This image is related to Homer's popular painting Breezing Up (1876; National Gallery of Art, Washington), which depicts three boys and a man sailing in Gloucester Harbor. When the oil appeared at the National Academy exhibition in 1876, the critic for The Nation praised the work: "The boatman's barefoot boy who sits upon the thwart, and whose bright eye evidently sees such enormous horizons [is] as clean-cut a piece of work as the nest figure ever blocked out for a shipbuilder by the marine sculptor."