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Winslow Homers depictions of maritime catastrophe and rescue on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| September 22nd, 2012 01:35:12 am |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- While living in a tiny fishing village in England in 1881-82, the American artist Winslow Homer was profoundly moved by the sight of a shipwreck that would focus his imagination on the power and peril of the sea. His art took on a new seriousness and drama, demonstrated in a major painting made soon after his return to the United States: The Life Line (1884),one of his greatest popular and critical successes. A masterpiece owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for almost 90 years, The Life Line is the centerpiece of this exhibition about the making and meaning of an iconic American image of rescue at sea. Celebrating modern heroism and the thrill of unexpected intimacy between strangers thrown together by disaster, Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and “The Life Line” contains 33 works by or after Homer. These works are complemented by a range of precedents in the shipwreck and rescue genre including |
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