Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer is a central figure of nineteenth-century American art, best known for his marine and coastal scenes, rural genre subjects, and landscapes rendered in oil, watercolor, and print. The archive gathers 226 works spanning 1857 to 1905, with wood engravings forming the largest group alongside color lithographs, oils, watercolors with graphite, and a small number of etchings. Several sheets are later impressions up to 1905, so the range reflects printings as well as original dates. Among the subjects represented are bathers, a late-afternoon beach, a camp fire, Cannon Rock, and channel bass.
226 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
Skating in Central Park, New York
1861 · Color lithograph with hand coloring
Life in Camp, Part 1: Building Castles; Hard Tack; Upset His Coffee; Water Call; A Shell is Coming; Riding on a Rail; Surgeons Call; An Unwelcome Visit; Late for Roll Call; Stuck in the Mud; The Guard House; Tossing in a Blanket
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: In the Trenches; Good Bye; Fording; Extra Ration; The Field Barber; The Girl He Left Behind Him; Drummer; A Deserter; Home on Furlough; The Rifle Pit; Teamster; Our Special
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Building Castles
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Hard Tack
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Upset His Coffee
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Water Call
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: A Shell is Coming
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Riding on a Rail
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Surgeon's Call
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: An Unwelcome Visit
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Late for Roll Call
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Stuck in the Mud
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: The Guard House
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 1: Tossing in a Blanket
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: In the Trenches
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Good Bye
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Fording
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Extra Ration
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: The Field Barber
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: The Girl He Left Behind
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Drummer
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: A Deserter
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Home on Furlough
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: The Rifle Pit
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Teamster
1864 · Color lithograph
Life in Camp, Part 2: Our Special
1864 · Color lithograph
The Veteran in a New Field
1865 · Oil on canvas
Our Watering Places – Horse Racing at Saratoga (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IX)
1865 · Wood engraving
The Croquet Players
1866 · Conté crayon, on tan wove paper
Prisoners from the Front
1866 · Oil on canvas
The Studio
1867 · Oil on canvas
The Beach, Late Afternoon
1869 · Oil on wood
Study for Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts
1869 (?) · Oil on wood
Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)
1870 · Oil on canvas
Tenth Commandment
1870 · Wood engraving
Rainy Day in Camp
1871 · Oil on canvas
Snap the Whip
1872 · Oil on canvas
A Basket of Clams
1873 · Watercolor on wove paper
Boys in a Dory
1873 · Watercolor washes and gouache over graphite underdrawing on medium rough textured white wove paper
The Battle of Bunker Hill – Watching the Fight from Copp's Hill, in Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIX)
1875 · Wood engraving
A Fisher Girl on Beach (Sketch for Illustration of "The Incoming Tide")
1876 · Metalpoint (?) and crayon on white wove paper
Dressing for the Carnival
1877 · Oil on canvas
Sheep
1878 · Dark graphite and white gouache on vat-dyed wove paper
Shepherd and Shepherdess
1878 · Glazed earthenware, overglaze enamel decoration
Camp Fire
1880 · Oil on canvas
Two Ladies (1880)
1880 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
The Bathers (1882)
1882 · Black and white chalk on off-white wove paper
Fisherwomen
1882 · Charcoal, white chalk, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Inside the Bar
1883 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
The Life Line
1884 · Etching, printed in dark green ink
Distressed Boat (Sketch for "The Gulf Stream") (recto); Floor Plan Diagram; Elevation of a domestic residence (verso)
1885 · Graphite on paper
Eight Bells
1887 · Etching on parchment
Mending the Tears
1888 · Etching
Perils of the Sea
1888 · Etching
A Voice from the Cliffs
1888 · Etching
Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake
1889 · Etching
Saved
1889 · Etching
Bookplate for H. W. Bryant of Portland Maine
1893 · Lithograph
Moonlight, Wood Island Light
1894 · Oil on canvas
Cannon Rock
1895 · Oil on canvas
Northeaster
1895; reworked by 1901 · Oil on canvas
Maine Coast
1896 · Oil on canvas
Hurricane, Bahamas
1898 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Palm Tree, Nassau
1898 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
A Wall, Nassau
1898 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
The Bather
1899 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda
1899 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Nassau
1899 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Shore and Surf, Nassau
1899 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Sloop, Nassau
1899 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
The Gulf Stream
1899; reworked by 1906 · Oil on canvas
The Pioneer
1900 · Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
1902 · Oil on canvas
Fishing Boats, Key West
1903 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Taking on Wet Provisions (Schooner Marked Newport, K. W.)
1903 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Channel Bass
1904 · Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River
1905–10 · Oil on canvas with chalk
Floral Department of the Great Fair
April 16, 1864 · Wood engraving
Spring in the City (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
April 17, 1858 · Wood engraving
At Sea—Signalling a Passing Steamer (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)
April 18, 1871 · Wood engraving
New York Charities – St. Barnabas House, 304 Mulberry Street (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
April 18, 1874 · Wood engraving
March Winds (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
April 2, 1859 · Wood engraving
April Showers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
April 2, 1859 · Wood engraving
The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
April 25, 1863 · Wood engraving
The Wreck of the "Atlantic" – Cast Up by the Sea (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
April 26, 1873 · Wood engraving
May-Day in the Country (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
April 30, 1859 · Wood engraving
Spring Farm Work – Grafting
April 30, 1870 · Wood engraving
Danger Ahead (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. III)
April 30, 1870 · Wood engraving
Scene in Union Square On a March Day (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)
April 7, 1860 · Wood engraving
The Picnic Excursion (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
August 14, 1869 · Wood engraving
On the Beach at Long Branch – The Children's Hour (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
August 15, 1874 · Wood engraving
The Nooning (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
August 16, 1873 · Wood engraving
On the Beach – Two are Company, Three are None, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI
August 17, 1872 · Wood engraving
Orrin, Make Haste, I Am Perishing!
August 1868 · Wood engraving
The Bathers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
August 2, 1873 · Wood engraving
The Robin's Note (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
August 20, 1870 · Wood engraving
The Beach at Long Branch (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. II)
August 21, 1869 · Wood engraving
Waiting for a Bite
August 22, 1874 · Wood engraving
Sea-side Sketches – A Clam Bake (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
August 23, 1873 · Wood engraving
Our Watering Places – The Empty Sleeve at Newport
August 26, 1865 · Wood engraving
Bathing at Long Branch "Oh, Ain't It Cold" (Every Saturday, Vol. III, New Series)
August 26, 1871 · Wood engraving
August in the Country – The Sea-Shore (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
August 27, 1859 · Wood engraving
At the Spring: Saratoga (Hearth and Home, Vol. I)
August 28, 1869 · Wood engraving
The Family Record, from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. VIII
August 28, 1875 · Wood engraving
High Tide (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
August 6, 1870 · Wood engraving
Low Tide (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
August 6, 1870 · Wood engraving
On the Bluff at Long Branch, at the Bathing Hour (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIV)
August 6, 1870 · Wood engraving
The Last Load
August 7, 1869 · Wood engraving
The Morning Bell (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
December 13, 1873 · Wood engraving
In Came a Storm of Wind, Rain and Spray – and Portia (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VIII)
December 1869 · Wood engraving
Our Minister's Donation Party (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. I)
December 19, 1868 · Wood engraving
Trapping in the Adirondacks (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
December 24, 1870 · Wood engraving
Santa Claus and His Presents (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
December 25, 1858 · Wood engraving
Christmas Out of Doors (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
December 25, 1858 · Wood engraving
Christmas – Gathering Evergreens (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
December 25, 1858 · Wood engraving
The Christmas Tree (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
December 25, 1858 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone
December 3, 1864 · Wood engraving
The Last Days of Harvest
December 6, 1873 · Wood engraving
Allow Me to Examine the Young Lady
February 18, 1860 · Wood engraving
Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New York City Hall, New York (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIII)
February 20, 1869 · Wood engraving
St. Valentine's Day – The Old Story in All Lands (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)
February 22, 1868 · Wood engraving
The Meeting After the Marriage
February 25, 1860 · Wood engraving
Watch-Tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
February 28, 1874 · Wood engraving
Halt of a Wagon Train
February 6, 1864 · Wood engraving
Station-House Lodgers
February 7, 1874 · Wood engraving
Another Year by the Old Clock
January 1, 1870 · Wood engraving
Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)
January 11, 1868 · Wood engraving
The Sleighing Season – The Upset (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)
January 14, 1860 · Wood engraving
A Snow Slide in the City (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)
January 14, 1860 · Wood engraving
A Winter Morning – Shovelling Out
January 14, 1871 · Wood engraving
Winter at Sea – Taking in Sail off the Coast
January 16, 1869 · Wood engraving
A Shell in Rebel Trenches
January 17, 1863 · Wood engraving
George Blake's Letter
January 1870 · Wood engraving
Christmas Belles
January 2, 1869 · Wood engraving
Waiting for Calls on New Year's Day (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. II)
January 2, 1869 · Wood engraving
Deer-Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)
January 21, 1871 · Wood engraving
Winter Quarters in Camp – The Inside of a Hut
January 24, 1863 · Wood engraving
Winter – A Skating Scene (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)
January 25, 1868 · Wood engraving
Skating on the Ladies' Skating Pond in Central Park, New York (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)
January 28, 1860 · Wood engraving
Lumbering in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)
January 28, 1871 · Wood engraving
Christmas Boxes in Camp – Christmas, 1861
January 4, 1862 · Wood engraving
Union Meetings in the Open Air Outside the Academy of Music, December 19, 1859 (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
January 7, 1860 · Wood engraving
The New Year – 1869 – Drawn by Winslow Homer (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIII)
January 9, 1869 · Wood engraving
Summer in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
July 10, 1869 · Wood engraving
The Summit of Mount Washington (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIII)
July 10, 1869 · Wood engraving
Fire-Works on the Night of the Fourth of July (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)
July 11, 1868 · Wood engraving
The Fourth of July in Tompkins Square, New York – "The Sogers Are Coming"
July 11, 1868 · Wood engraving
Gathering Berries (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
July 11, 1874 · Wood engraving
The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement
July 12, 1862 · Wood engraving
The War for the Union, 1862 – A Bayonet Charge (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
July 12, 1862 · Wood engraving
Crew of U.S. Steamsloop "Colorado," Shipped at Boston, June 1861 (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, p. 439)
July 13, 1861 · Wood engraving
False Alarm, Surely!
July 17, 1869 · Wood engraving
Holiday in Camp – Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball" – Sketched by Winslow Homer
July 1865 · Wood engraving
Jessie Remained Alone at the Table (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VI)
July 1868 · Wood engraving
Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal, at Watertown, Massachusetts (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 238, cover)
July 20, 1861 · Wood engraving
The Coolest Spot in New England – Summit of Mount Washington
July 23, 1870 · Wood engraving
On the Road to Lake George (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
July 24, 1869 · Wood engraving
New England Factory Life – "Bell Time" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)
July 25, 1868 · Wood engraving
What Shall We Do Next? (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. II)
July 31, 1869 · Wood engraving
Making Hay, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI
July 6, 1872 · Wood engraving
The Dinner Horn
June 11, 1870 · Wood engraving
Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets, Boston (Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, Vol. XII)
June 13, 1857 · Wood engraving
Home from the War (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
June 13, 1863 · Wood engraving
Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
June 13, 1874 · Wood engraving
You Are Really Picturesque, My Love
June 1868 · Wood engraving
Hi! Ho-o-o! He Done Come. Jumbolor Tell you Fust
June 1869 · Wood engraving
The Artist in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. I)
June 19, 1869 · Wood engraving
The Noon Recess (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
June 28, 1873 · Wood engraving
The War – Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 235, cover)
June 29, 1861 · Wood engraving
A Quiet Day in the Country (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. III)
June 6, 1870 · Wood engraving
The Army of the Potomac – Our Outlying Picket in the Woods
June 7, 1862 · Wood engraving
On the Beach (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")
March 10, 1860 · Wood engraving
Skating at Boston (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
March 12, 1859 · Wood engraving
The Lady in Black, Meadowbrook Parsonage (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")
March 17, 1860 · Wood engraving
A Country Store – Getting Weighed
March 25, 1871 · Wood engraving
The Morning Walk – The Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue
March 28, 1868 · Wood engraving
Mrs. Otcheson at the Piano, and The Buds (from "The Mistress of the Parsonage," in "Harper's Weekly")
March 3, 1860 · Wood engraving
Any Thing for Me, if you Please? Post-Office of the Brooklyn Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VIII)
March 5, 1864 · Wood engraving
The Chinese in New York – Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House
March 7, 1874 · Wood engraving
Spring Blossoms (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIV)
May 12, 1870 · Wood engraving
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Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown, Reconnoitring [sic] with Dark Lanterns (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)
May 17, 1862 · Wood engraving
The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)
May 17, 1862 · Wood engraving
Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)
May 17, 1862 · Wood engraving
She Turned her Face to the Window
May 1868 · Wood engraving
The Boston Common (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
May 22, 1858 · Wood engraving
Sunday Morning in Virginia – From the Painting by Winslow Homer in the National Academy of Design (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XXIV)
May 22, 1880 · Wood engraving
The Seventy Ninth Regiment (Highlanders), New York State Militia (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, p. 329)
May 25, 1861 · Wood engraving
Army of the Potomac – Sleeping on Their Arms
May 28, 1864 · Wood engraving
Dad's Coming!
November 1, 1873 · Wood engraving
Husking the Corn in New England (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
November 13, 1858 · Wood engraving
Driving Home the Corn and Dance after the Husking (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
November 13, 1858 · Wood engraving
The Army of the Potomac – A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
November 15, 1862 · Wood engraving
Weary and Dissatisfied With Everything (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VIII)
November 1869 · Wood engraving
The Russian Ball – In the Supper Room
November 21, 1863 · Wood engraving
A Parisian Ball – Dancing at the Mabille, Paris
November 23, 1867 · Wood engraving
A Parisian Ball – Dancing at the Casino
November 23, 1867 · Wood engraving
Fall Games – The Apple Bee
November 26, 1859 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving Day – Ways and Means
November 27, 1858 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving Day – Arrival At the Old Home (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
November 27, 1858 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving Day – The Dinner (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
November 27, 1858 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving Day – The Dance (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
November 27, 1858 · Wood engraving
Thanksgiving in Camp (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
November 29, 1862 · Wood engraving
Camping Out in Adirondacks (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
November 7, 1874 · Wood engraving
Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
October 11, 1873 · Wood engraving
I Call Them My Children – To Myself, Susan (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VIII)
October 1869 · Wood engraving
The Fishing Party (from "Appleton's Journal," Vol. II)
October 2, 1869 · Wood engraving
Chestnutting (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)
October 29, 1870 · Wood engraving
Our Next President
October 31, 1868 · Wood engraving
Autograph Letter to Louis Prang, Discussing lithograph of "The Eastern Shore"
October 8, 1895 · Pen and ink and graphite
Seesaw, Gloucester, Massachusetts (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
September 12, 1874 · Wood engraving
Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains, from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVI
September 14, 1878 · Wood engraving
The Drive in Central Park, New York (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)
September 15, 1860 · Wood engraving
I Cannot! It Would Be a Sin! A Fearful Sin!
September 1868 · Wood engraving
Come
September 1869 · Wood engraving
Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)
September 19, 1874 · Wood engraving
Snap-the-Whip (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
September 20, 1873 · Wood engraving
The Straw Ride (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. II)
September 25, 1869 · Wood engraving
Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)
September 27, 1873 · Wood engraving
A Cadet Hop at West Point (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)
September 3, 1859 · Wood engraving
Picnicking in the Woods (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
September 4, 1858 · Wood engraving
The Bathe at Newport (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. II)
September 4, 1858 · Wood engraving
Blue Beard Tableau: Fatima Enters the Forbidden Court; What She Sees There; Disposition of the Bodies (Invisible to the Spectators) (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. I)
September 5, 1868 · Wood engraving
Saddle Horse in Farm Yard
ca. 1870–75 · Oil on wood
Harvest Scene
ca. 1873 · Oil on canvas
Natural Bridge, Bermuda
ca. 1901 · Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper