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By Stephen Tashiro "sometimes reliable" (Las Cruces, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Drawings of Winslow Homer (Master Draughtsman Series) (Paperback)
"The Drawings Of Winslow Homer" contains 44 pages of pictures by the artist. The printed part of a page is typically 6 x 9 inches. Most pages have only one picture on them, a few have two. The pictures are reproduced as monochrome images even though some of these works ( e.g. the watercolor paintings "Fresh Eggs", "Woman Peeling A Lemon" ) are not monochrome. The technology probably exists to photograph watercolor paintings to reveal the pencil sketch beneath the colors, but this has not been applied. You simply see a grayscale version of the paintings.There is a two page essay on Winslow Homer by Stephen Longstreet. One of the things we learn is that Homer seldom drew nudes. The only picture with nudity in this collection is a very sketchy image of some children near a swimming hole. Compared to other volumes in the "Master Draughtsman Series", this collection has a relatively large number of pictures ( about 20, I think) that would qualify as finished works of art as opposed to sketches or studies. For each picture, the book gives a title, the medium and the museum that contains the picture (- save for one picture where all the information is missing). The sizes of the pictures are not given. I rate this book as three stars out of five to indicate that it does an average job of informing students about Homer's drawings. Although I'm not sure how many of the titles were given by Homer himself or standardized by scholars, it may be helpful to have a list of the pictures, which the book itself lacks. Using the titles given by the book, it contains the following: A Fisher Girl on the Beach Pencil Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York NY Schooner at Anchor Black Chalk and White Body Color Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Woman and Elephant, Watercolor Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Two Girls in a Field Pencil Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Beach Scene, Tynemouth Watercolor, over Sketch in Pencil Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Shepherdess Pencil Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA Three Boys on Beached Dory Pencil and Crayon Heightened with White Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Little Girl Swinging Pencil, Heightened with White Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Shepherdess Charcoal Heightened with White Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH Child Seated in a Wicker Chair Black Crayon and White Gouache with Touches of Pencil Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Study for "Undertow" Pencil and Black Chalk Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Study for "The Signal of Distress" Pencil and Water Color Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Sketch of Calvalry Soldier Charcoal and White Chalk Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA On the Edge of the Farm Pencil, Heightened with White Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Going Berrying Crayon, Heightened with White on Buff Paper Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Hunting for Eggs Gouach, over Sketch in Pencil Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Sailing in Annisquam Pencil Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA On the Road to Lake George Pencil Drawing for Woodcut Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Boy Picking Berries Pencil and Chalk Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA Fisher Girl with Net Pencil, Gray and White Wash Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Cavalry Soldier Black Crayon on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Girl Seated on a Rail Fence Pencil with Chinese White Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Reconnaissance by General Gorman before Yorktown Pencil and Wash Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Studies of Soldiers' Heads Charcoal on Brown Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Sketch in Front of Yourktown 1862 Pen and Ink and Crayon Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA Feeling the Enemy Pen and Ink, Black and White Chalk The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton NJ Shepardess Resting Charcoal on Cardboard Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Feeding Time Watercolor and Gouache, over Sketch in Pencil Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Young Girl Seated with Basket Charcoal and Chinese White on Gray Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Study for "The Fishing Party" Pencil on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Study for "The Coolest Spot in New England, Summit of Mt. Washington" Black and White Crayon on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY [Untitled sketch of dismounted cavalry, no information given about medium or museum ] Men Beaching a Boat Black Chalk on White Paper Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA Royal Palms, Cuba Pencil, White Crayon on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Women on Shore with Lobster Pot, 1882 Pencil and Watercolor Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Girl and Sheep Pencil and Wash Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Civil War Soldier Charcoal and Chalk Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston MA Study of Cavalry Officers Boots Pencil on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Girls at a Well Pencil and Chinese White Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY The Swimming Hole Pencil Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY The Bathers Charcoal and White Chalk Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York NY The Croquet Players Black Chalk Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York NY Sheep Grazing in a Field Crayon and Chinese White on Paper Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY Two Girls on a Cliff Wash, Pencil, Heightened with White Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA Woman Peeling a Lemon Watercolor, over Sketch in Black Chalk Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA From Richmond Pencil on Paper with Washes of Water Color, 1862 Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY After the Storm Charcoal, Brown and White Chalk The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton NJ Fresh Eggs Watercolor Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York NY Study for "The Lookout -All's Well" Crayon and Chinese White on Cardboard Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY |
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Drawings of Winslow Homer (Master Draughtsman Series) by Stephen Longstreet (Paperback - December 1, 1970)
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