Eastern Point, Winslow Homer
Homer completed Eastern Point in just one month, confidently recording the turbulent weather conditions near his studio in Maine. The surf, vigorously painted in deep blue green and opaque white, churns beneath an ominous gray sky. Rocks jut from the kelp-strewn beach, their uneven surfaces described with touches of red, ocher, and yellow. When this painting was exhibited in 1901, a New York critic hailed it as “quite the next thing to a brisk tramp along the shore on a stormy day.”
