Northeaster
Artist: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
Original Dimensions: 34 1/2" x 50"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1895; reworked by 1901) "In 1895 when Homer first exhibited this epic scene of a winter storm at Prouts Neck, Maine, it included two figures crouching on the rocks at lower left. By 1900 he had eliminated them and amplified the spray from the crashing waves. When the edited painting was exhibited in New York in 1901, a critic appreciated its emphasis on pure, powerful nature and extolled its representation of "three fundamental facts, the rugged strength of the rocks, the weighty, majestic movement of the sea and the large atmosphere of great natural spaces unmarked by the presence of puny man."" - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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