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This intimate exhibition showcases etchings produced by Winslow Homer during the 1880s. Six of the artist’s finished etchings will be presented alongside related studies and reproductive prints executed by artists after Homer originals. In bringing these works together, this exhibition demonstrates the extent to which Homer’s etchings, initiated as a commercial venture, in fact constituted an evolving engagement with the technical and aesthetic particularities of the medium.
Film Screening
“Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude” a 2007 film by Steven J. Ross will be shown on Thursday, July 31 at 7:00 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College in conjunction with the exhibition. This first major documentary film about the life and work of the artist Winslow Homer was shot in part on location in Maine and Massachusetts and features over 180 of Homer’s works, together with input from noted scholars in the field. Writer-producer-director Steven J. Ross will introduce the film in person. Free admission and open to the public.
