The Herring Net
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The Herring Net, 1885
Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 122.9 cm (30 1/8 x 48 3/8 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.1039
American Gallery 171
Almost two decades separate Winslow Homer's The Herring Net from Croquet Scene and White Mountains, and the changes that occurred in the artist's work over the course of these years are striking. Although his works were still based on observations of contemporary life, Homer abandoned land for sea, sport for work, women for men, and small canvases for large; his palette became subdued and the scale of his figures monumental. This stylistic shift towards the heroic precipitated by Homer's trips to the fishing towns of Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1880 and Cullercoats, England, in 1881 and 1882, as well as his permanent move to Prout's Neck on the rocky, desolate coast of Maine in 1883.
| Classifications: | american arts, painting. |
| Subjects: | food, men, water, weather/seasons, work. |
| Media: | oil. |
| Artists: | Winslow Homer. |
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