{"id":4822,"date":"2018-02-12T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:11:26","slug":"new-exhibition-explores-british-influence-on-the-quintessential-american-painter-winslow-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2018\/02\/new-exhibition-explores-british-influence-on-the-quintessential-american-painter-winslow-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibition Explores British Influence on the Quintessential American Painter Winslow Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Exhibition Explores British Influence on the
\nQuintessential American Painter Winslow Homer<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

-\u201cComing Away: Winslow Homer and England\u201d explores how English art and an 18-month sojourn in Cullercoats impacted the latter part of the artist\u2019s career-<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 February 6, 2018 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The 19th-century painter\u00a0Winslow Homer\u00a0<\/strong>(1836-1910) is one of the most beloved figures in American art, perhaps most associated with the pastoral beauty of rural America and his dramatic Maine seascapes. The new exhibition\u00a0Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England<\/em><\/strong>, opening\u00a0March 1 and on view through May 20, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Milwaukee Art Museum<\/strong>, explores how English artists and Homer\u2019s nearly two-year stay in the seaside village of Cullercoats, England, impacted the style and subjects of the artist\u2019s work for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n

Fifty works by Winslow Homer are featured in the exhibition, including a selection of some of his most famous early scenes of independent farmers and outdoorsmen, as well as women at leisure and mischievous country children at play. Displayed alongside the art that Homer developed while in Cullercoats and the dramatic seascapes that marked his career after he returned to the United States, the exhibition demonstrates the great shift in Homer\u2019s painting that his time in England inspired.<\/p>\n

The exhibition brings together many of Homer\u2019s most beloved and famous works, such as\u00a0The Cotton Pickers<\/em>, on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art;\u00a0The Lifeline\u00a0<\/em>from the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\u2019s\u00a0Summer Night<\/em>; as well as many of the artist\u2019s late seascapes that so deeply influenced American modernists. Also included are paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, George Henry Boughton, Jules Adolphe Breton and Joseph Mallord William Turner\u2014works that show the range of international influences that Homer embraced\u2014alongside English photographs, which Homer consumed and became fascinated with during his stay abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring his lifetime as now, critics celebrated Homer\u2019s work for its honesty and truth to nature, what many believed were quintessentially American qualities, but this exhibition complicates our understanding of Homer as the archetypal American artist,\u201d commented co-curator\u00a0Brandon Ruud<\/strong>, the Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Core to the exhibition, co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Worcester Art Museum, are two pivotal paintings in Homer\u2019s career:\u00a0Hark! The Lark<\/em>, which is part of the Layton Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and\u00a0The Gale,<\/em>\u00a0in the permanent collection at the Worcester Art Museum.\u00a0Hark!\u00a0<\/em>was the major canvas to emerge from Homer\u2019s stay in Cullercoats, a painting he chose to represent him at the Royal Academy before he left England, and one that later in life he described as \u201cthe most important picture I ever painted, and the very best one.\u201d Homer began his composition for\u00a0The Gale<\/em>\u00a0while in Cullercoats and spent the next decade of his life perfecting the painting as he wrestled with his aesthetic vision and artistic legacy, a testament to his craftsmanship and England\u2019s lasting influences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two important works that bookend Homer\u2019s Cullercoats period provide the perfect opportunity to explore the artist anew and show just how pivotal England was to the artist\u2019s development,\u201d said\u00a0Elizabeth Athens<\/strong>, co-curator from the\u00a0Worcester Art Museum<\/strong>, presently at the National Gallery of Art.<\/p>\n

First shown to the public from November 11, 2017 to February 4, 2018 at the Worcester Art Museum, the exhibition was warmly received by East Coast audiences.<\/p>\n

Now opening at the Milwaukee Art Museum, this presentation of the exhibition begins and ends with expansive views of the choppy late-winter waters of Lake Michigan, evocative of Homer\u2019s seascapes.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Milwaukee Art Museum will also host a full range of programs relevant to its location on Lake Michigan and the city\u2019s relationship to waterways, and includes presentations by internationally renowned scholars:\u00a0Sarah Burns<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus, University of Indiana on April 5 and\u00a0John Fagg<\/strong>\u00a0from the University of Birmingham, England on May 3.<\/p>\n

The accompanying hardcover catalogue\u00a0Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England<\/em>\u00a0is co-published by Yale University Press, the Worcester Art Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum. The essays are by co-curators Brandon Ruud and Elizabeth Athens, as well Martha Tedeschi, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director at the Harvard Art Museums. The catalogue is made possible through support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.<\/p>\n

The exhibition\u00a0Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England\u00a0<\/em>is co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and Worcester Art Museum.<\/p>\n

Co-curators: Brandon Ruud, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Elizabeth Athens, Assistant Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, presently at the National Gallery of Art.<\/p>\n

Presenting Sponsor:<\/strong> BMO Harris Bank
\nThis exhibition is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art<\/strong>
\nEducation Sponsor:<\/strong> Caxambas Foundation<\/p>\n

Supporting Sponsors:<\/strong>
\nHenry Luce Foundation
\nWyeth Foundation for American Art
\nThe Lunder Foundation
\nMilwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Collectors\u2019 Corner in honor of their 70th anniversary
\nMilwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Friends of Art
\nBob and Judy Scott<\/p>\n

Program Sponsor: Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s American Arts Society<\/p>\n

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.<\/p>\n

About the Milwaukee Art Museum
\n<\/u><\/strong>Home to a rich collection of more than 30,000 works of art, the Milwaukee Art Museum is located on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its campus includes the Santiago Calatrava\u2013designed Quadracci Pavilion, annually showcasing three feature exhibitions, and the Eero Saarinen\u2013designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center and David Kahler\u2012designed addition. In 2016, after a yearlong renovation, the Museum reopened its Collection Galleries, debuting nearly 2,500 world-class works of art within dramatically transformed galleries and a new lakefront addition. This reimagined space also allows for the presentation of additional changing exhibitions. For more information, please visit:\u00a0mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

General Admission Pricing<\/u><\/strong>
\n$19 Adults
\n$17 Students (w\/ID), Seniors (65+)
\nFree for Kids 12 & under every day thanks to Kohl\u2019s Cares
\nFree to Members
\nFree to Wisconsin K\u201312 teachers with valid school ID or pay stub
\nFree the first Thursday of every month, sponsored by Meijer
\nAdult tour groups or school groups should call 414-224-3842.<\/p>\n

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