Description
By the latter half of the 19th century, American scene painters were beginning to free themselves from the “tyranny” of the European academic tradition. They painted distinctly American subjects: scenes of everyday life and our landscape in all its variety and glory, from Manhattan’s gritty streets to purple mountain majesties. We associate Winslow Homer with Prout’s Neck, Maine, but he also worked in the Adirondacks and vacation spots from Canada to the West Indies. Largely self-taught, Homer rejected the academic tradition to seek his own path to success.