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Sunday, 4 December 2022

Artlyst - Winslow Homer: American Passage An Interview With Biographer Bill Cross

My latest interview for Artlyst is with Bill Cross, independent scholar, consultant to art and history museums and author of “Winslow Homer: American Passage”:

'The author of the biography Winslow Homer: American Passage, Bill Cross, is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums. He is an author who tells stories of Americans whose works are known but whose lives are not. In 2019, he curated Homer at the Beach, A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869-1880, for which he also wrote the catalogue, at the Cape Ann Museum.

The exhibition revealed the formation of Winslow Homer as a marine painter. For more than three decades he managed investment teams and investment portfolios, while also writing, researching and lecturing on art, faith and history. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and believes that all people – children, women and men – need stories. A well-told tale of someone else’s life helps us make better sense of our own lives. His particular focus is on the lives of women and men who have shaped culture as their stories are also the stories of their times and their work, which frames their lives. These stories nudge us to ask: What do you see? How do you see? What do you not see? Why?'

My review of Winslow Homer: Beyond The Sea at the National Gallery can be read here.

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Sunday, 25 September 2022

Artlyst - Winslow Homer: Beyond The Sea – National Gallery

My latest review for Artlyst is of Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at National Gallery:

‘Homer’s concern for the plight of freed slaves began during his childhood, when discussions of slavery and the abolitionist movement were very much a part of his daily life. At one point his parents attended different churches: his mother Henrietta attending a church that was abolitionist, and his father Charles attending another that was strongly against. Later, they moved to Cambridge with abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who was also a strong supporter of women’s rights.

While his interest in the pressing issues of his time, such as conflict and race, feature strongly in his work it is the relationship between humankind and the environment expressed in restless seascapes that becomes his principal focus, reflecting both his travels around the globe and his home on the coast of Maine.

The sea takes over, so that by Winter Coast (1890), the abstract force of the raging sea overwhelms both land and canvas swamping the image and imperilling the vulnerable hunter facing wild nature. In today’s context, this is a disturbing image that connects with concerns about rising sea levels. The power of the ocean is literally overwhelming.'

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