Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

Winslow Homer's artwork encompasses racial, political, and natural conflict, and this publication focuses on his watercolors and oil paintings from visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. The Gulf Stream (1899) is considered his most consequential painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 26 April 2022
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. Among these, The Gulf Stream (1899), often considered the most consequential painting of his career, reveals Homers lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. Recognizing the artists keen ability to distill complex issues, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular conceptions and convincingly argues that Homers work resonates with the challenges of the present day.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(April 11–July 31, 2022)

National Gallery, London
(September 10, 2022–January 8, 2023)

Weight: 1424g
Dimension: 250 x 289 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781588397478