Paintings
Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1900–1903
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 111 × 160 × 12 cm; Unframed: 76.8 × 127 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1924
About this object
The powerful Atlantic surf pounding against the desolate coast of Prouts Neck, Maine, provided primary subject matter for the dramatic paintings that Homer created during his final decades. This example, which the artist proclaimed as "the best picture of the sea that I have painted," was initially conceived as a watercolor. Undertaking the composition in oil after a lapse of nearly two decades, Homer patiently waited for the appropriate atmospheric conditions, executing the work in four different sessions spread over two years.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed lower left: "HOMER / 1902"
