Cleveland Museum of Art

Early Morning After a Storm at Sea

Winslow HomerLinkedCulture matchlcp-890c6078a933

Date: 1900–1903
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: America, late 19th-early 20th Century
Department: American Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 106088

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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. Winslow Homer's studio in Prouts Neck, Maine, is a National Historic Landmark.

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Credit line: Gift of J. H. Wade
Provenance: 1924-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1924: (Frank Rehn, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1918-1924: Cornelius Vanderbilt Barton, New York, NY, consigned to Frank Rehn, Inc. | 1917-1918: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt Barton)1 | 1904-1917: William K. Bixby [1857-1931], St. Louis, MO, returned to Knoedler & Co. | 1903-1904: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, sold to William K. Bixby)1

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