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It is very difficult just to walk past this painting. Sharks circling, a massive storm, and the lone young black sailor facing certain death. We see the mast is broken, and the sail has gone. The male looks away from the sharks. Maybe he is desperately looking for another boat. His hand seems to be touching or grasping a sugar cane, and there are a number of other canes on the deck. Were they for sale or sustenance during the trip? Around the boat, the water is flecked with red. Have the sharks killed already? If you look carefully at the horizon, there is perhaps a glimmer of aspire – the shadowy outline of a schooner can be seen through the storm clouds. But to the right of the horizon, we can also see a wind spout, which could also threaten the boat. The man’s expression – is it resolute or resigned to his fate? His posture suggests he is resilient still. The sea&#;s greens, greys, and turquoise blues are vividly painted. At the stern of the boat, you can clearly see its name, &#;Gulf Stream.&#;
This picture has been rightly considered the iconic work of Winslow Homer (–). It
“No More Long Faces”
Did Winslow Homer possess a broken heart?
Gawking at the love lives of public figures–from Brangelina to Eliot Spitzer–is something of a national pastime these days, and things weren't much unlike during the lifetime of celebrated American artist Winslow Homer ().
While prolific in depicting the outside world, Homer adamantly refused to unveil his inner landscape to an increasingly curious public throughout his career. Perhaps that is why, nearly a century after his death, we're still interested: Secrecy often suggests something worth concealing.
Homer himself hinted at this sentiment in a note to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have such a thing appear–and as the most fascinating part of my life is of no concern to the public I must decline to give you any particulars in regard to it."
Although Homer remained a bachelor for all of his 74 years, after his death, one of his close friends told biographer Lloyd Goodrich that the designer "had the usual number of passion affairs." No conclusive evidence is accessible about any of
'Hark! The Lark' and Other Gay Art
The Milwaukee Art Museum recently opened a new exhibit, “Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England.” The extraordinary show of some 50 works by Homer and his contemporaries adds to the pantheon of LGBTQ artists (or those presumed to be) represented in the museum’s collection and past special exhibits. Among the regulars usually on view are Kehinde Wiley, lesbian cross-dresser Rosa Bonheur, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, reclusive lesbian Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, impressionist Gustave Caillebotte and others. MAM’s distinct exhibits have not shied away from gay artists either. In the past decade, major shows have been dedicated to Francis Bacon, Gilbert and George, Andy Warhol and Thomas Hart Benton. Others have included gay artists like German expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau.
In the case of Winslow Homer, the academic debate regarding his affinities goes on. One has to recall that, until relatively recently, organism out not only risked career and reputation, but could also have meant imprisonment, castra
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Winslow Homer (February 24, – September 29, ) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Winslow Homer traveled to the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida launch in In Nassau, he captured the rugged musculature and masculinity of inky conch and coral divers. As with John Singer Sargent, many have speculated about Homer’s sexual appetites. Homer had an intense and devoted relationship with his flatmate, Albert Kelsey, whom he drew in the Bahamas riding the back of a turtle in the nude.
In , Winslow Homer sailed from Boston on the Africa for Europe. Homer spent a year in Paris, where he common a studio in Montmartre with his friend from Belmont, Albert Warren Kelsey. Although Kelsey inscribe the back of a photography of the two of them "Damon and Pythias", alluding to the loving youths of Greek mythology, he seems in later years to have rejected his so