In Winslow Homer’s “The Old Mill (The Morning Bell)” (1871), under a blue summer sky, a young woman in a bright red jacket and ribboned straw hat, carrying a lunch pail, sets foot on a plank bridge.

The great artist—and subject of a blockbuster new exhibition—foreshadowed the dark conflicts still with us today in his portraits of rugged individualism and homespun life in 19th-century America.

The art of the famously reticent New England painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) has often been studied through the lens of American history and criticism. Famed for his thunderous seascapes and brusque ...

In this podcast, curator Eleanor Jones Harvey discusses 6 featured paintings from "The Civil War and American Art" exhibition. This episode looks at "A Visit from the Old Mistress" by Winslow Homer.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington are the cultural comfort food of American art, two icons, both famous in their day, who shaped the country’s image of ...

Winslow Homer, who began as a Civil War reporter artist, later became known for depicting the US’s growing culture of leisure as expanding transportation networks enabled more people to visit the ...

As the owner of the largest Winslow Homer collection amassed by a single individual, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute features some of the artist's greatest hits in its exhibit "Winslow ...