Lenders to the Exhibition

Byrd, Dana E.; Goodyear III, Frank H.

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Lenders to the Exhibition

Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III

Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting

Lenders to the Exhibition

Author

Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III

PublisherBowdoin College Museum of Art

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20747

Lenders to the Exhibition

Addison Gallery of American Art

Brooklyn Museum

Colby College Museum of Art

The Columbus Museum

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Farnsworth Art Museum

Fine Art Library, Harvard College Library

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Harvard Art Museums

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

New Britain Museum of American Art

North Carolina Museum of Art

Peabody Art Collection, Maryland

Portland Museum of Art

Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

Smith College Museum of Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Supreme Court of the United States

Terra Foundation for the Arts

Wadsworth Atheneum

Brad and Ann Willauer

Worcester Art Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

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BOOKWinslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting

Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00225

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20743

One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer’s art, this volume exposes Homer’s own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer’s understanding of the camera’s ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America’s most original painters.

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Author

Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III

PublisherBowdoin College Museum of Art

Yale University Press

Print publication date July 2018 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300214550

EISBN 9780300259766

Illustrations 125

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