Winslow Homer, Hark! The Lark, 1882. Oil on canvas. Layton Art Collection Inc., Gift of Frederick Layton at the Milwaukee Art Museum, L99. Photo by John R. Glembin.

Winslow Homer, Summer Night, 1890. Oil on canvas. Musee d’Orsay, RF 1977 427, JdeP 33. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Winslow Homer, The Gale, 1883–93. Oil on canvas. Museum Purchase, 1916.48. Image courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

Winslow Homer, Perils of the Sea, 1888. Etching on paper. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1995.38. © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago / Art Resource, NY

Winslow Homer, The Cotton Pickers, 1876. Oil on canvas. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Acquisition made possible through Museum Trustees: Robert O. Anderson, R. Stanton Avery, B. Gerald Cantor, Edward W. Carter, Justin Dart, Charles E. Ducommun, Camilla Chandler Frost, Julian Ganz, Jr., Dr. Armand Hammer, Harry Lenart, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Mrs. Joan Palevsky, Richard E. Sherwood, Maynard J. Toll, and Hal B. Wallis, M.77.68. © S. Oliver/ LACMA

Winslow Homer, The Fisher Girl, 1894. Oil on canvas. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Gift of George D. Pratt (Class of 1893), AC P.1933.7. Bridgeman Images

Winslow Homer, Rocky Coast (Maine Coast), 1882–1900. Oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. Endowed in memory of Leontine Terry Hatch by J.T.S. and D.C.S., 1945.1. Allen Phillips / Wadsworth Atheneum

Winslow Homer, Croquet Scene, 1866. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of the American Art Collection; Goodman Fund, 1942.35. The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY

Winslow Homer, Early Morning after a Storm at Sea, 1900–03. Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.195. © The Cleveland Museum of Art

Winslow Homer, The Salmon Net, 1884. Charcoal and white chalk on paper. Seattle Art Museum, William Edris Bequest Fund; Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund; Richard E. Fuller Acquisition Fund, 74.67. Image courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum

Winslow Homer, The Life Line, 1884. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The George W. Elkins Collection, 1924, E1924-4-15. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, cat. 1004.

Winslow Homer, A Voice from the Cliffs, 1888. Etching on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Richard Cole, 1966, 66.516. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Winslow Homer, Fisher Folk in a Dory, 1881. Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1939.24