WINSLOW HOMER
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: Winslow Homer was an American painter originating from Boston, Massachusetts. He was an illustrator noted for his rural, outdoor settings. He spent much of his life on the coast of Maine and his Prout’s Neck series revealed the theme of the beauty and power of the ocean. He was considered the leading naturalist painter of the 19th century.
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of
Some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF N 31.D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art
REF N 5300.I45 1984 The Illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Bowdoin College. Museum of Art. Winslow Homer at Prout’s
Neck. Brinswick, Me:
Bowdoin College, 1966.
Cikovsky, Nicolai. Winslow
Homer. New York: Rizzoli International, 1992.
Downes, William Howe. The
Life and Works of Winslow Homer. New York: Dover
Publications, 1989.
Homer, Winslow. Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck
Observed. New York:
Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
Judge, Mary A. Winslow
Homer. New York: Crown, 1986.
Robertson, Bruce. Reckoning with Winslow Homer:
His Late Paintings and Their
Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Simpson, Marc. Winslow Homer:
Paintings of the Civil War. San Francisco:
Bedford Arts, 1988.
Tatham, David. Winslow Homer and the
Illustrated Book. Syracuse, New York:
Syracuse University Press, 1992.
Tatham, David. Winslow Homer in the
Adirondacks. New York: Syracuse University
Press, 1996.
Wood, Peter H. Winslow Homer’s
Images of Blacks: the Civil War and Reconstruction Years. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Open Access Journals in
Arts & Architecture
Open Access Journals in
History of Arts
Open Access Journals in
Visual Arts
WEB SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
The National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/homerwc/homerwc-main1.html
Updated
08/24/2007
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