Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.At Prouts Neck, Homer observed the sea constantly, explaining to a friend: "You must not paint everything you see. You must wait, and wait patiently until the exceptional, the wonderful effect or aspect comes. Then, if you have sense enough to see it—well . . . that is all there is to that." The artist began this evocative seascape in 1900 but based it on a watercolor he had painted in 1883. He considered this oil "the best picture of the sea that I have painted" and was dismayed when it was poorly received by critics. Always sensitive to the reception of his work, Homer complained that "no one understood it," and "besides that, the people never see the early morning effect. They don’t get up early enough."
Artwork Details
- Title: Early Morning After a Storm at Sea
- Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
- Date: 1900–1903
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 50 in. (76.8 x 127 cm)
Framed: 43 11/16 x 63 x 4 3/4 in. (111 x 160 x 12 cm) - Credit Line: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade (1924.195)
- Rights and Reproduction: Cleveland Museum of Art
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing