Winslow Homer successfully weds the freshness of…
1895 CE
When Homer first shows this canvas in 1895, it includes two men in foul-weather gear crouching on the rocks below a smaller column of spray.
The painting is well received and purchased by a leading collector of American art—George Hearn, who will later donate it to the Metropolitan Museum—but Homer subsequently reworks it to powerful effect.
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Winslow Homer: Northeaster (1895; reworked by 1901). Oil on canvas 34 1/2 x 50 in. (87.6 x 127 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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