WINSLOW HOMER Elizabeth Ripley

WINSLOW HOMER

Author: Elizabeth Ripley
$19.99 1999
ISBN 979888818003768 pages8 x10 inch color paperback
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This listing includes the book with one set of prints. Extra sets may be ordered separately for $10 each. Winslow Homer is an important name in American art, his canvases hang in museums around the world. He painted watercolors and oils of the Caribbean, the South, the seacoast of England, and the Adirondacks, but it is as a painter of the Maine coast that he is best known. In his biography we follow this New Englander from his childhood in Cambridge through his days during the Civil War as an artist for Harper’s Weekly, his early years in New York, his visits to France and England, and to his happy years in Prouts Neck, Maine. Elizabeth Ripley was fortunate to speak with a friend of the Homer family, who remembered many anecdotes of the artist. As they strolled along the rocky coastline of Prouts Neck, the author recognized many familiar scenes from Homer’s paintings and she understood his need of solitude in order to devote his life to painting. All paintings are in full color, plus there is a bonus page in the back, but only US orders, when you get the book here from Purple House Press—page 68 showcases Homer's beautiful painting Mending Nets. This edition of the book was printed on an offset printing press using 100# matte art paper with 12 pt covers. A set of eight 8x10 prints comes with the book. (US only) They're printed on 18 pt cardstock with a matte film lamination (the same coating on our jackets and covers) to help make them water resistant. The selected paintings are: Skating on Central Park, Snap the Whip, The Life Line, Sunlight on the Coast, Carnival, Prisoners from the Front, Eagle Head, and The Gulf Stream. Books purchased from any other retailer are the print-on-demand edition, with a different isbn and printed on 70# paper with 10 pt covers. Page 68 is blank, it does not feature Mending Nets as an extra painting. And there are no prints.

This listing includes the book with one set of prints. Extra sets may be ordered separately for $10 each.

Winslow Homer is an important name in American art, his canvases hang in museums around the world. He painted watercolors and oils of the Caribbean, the South, the seacoast of England, and the Adirondacks, but it is as a painter of the Maine coast that he is best known.

In his biography we follow this New Englander from his childhood in Cambridge through his days during the Civil War as an artist for Harper’s Weekly, his early years in New York, his visits to France and England, and to his happy years in Prouts Neck, Maine.

Elizabeth Ripley was fortunate to speak with a friend of the Homer family, who remembered many anecdotes of the artist. As they strolled along the rocky coastline of Prouts Neck, the author recognized many familiar scenes from Homer’s paintings and she understood his need of solitude in order to devote his life to painting.

All paintings are in full color, plus there is a bonus page in the back, but only US orders, when you get the book here from Purple House Press—page 68 showcases Homer's beautiful painting Mending Nets. This edition of the book was printed on an offset printing press using 100# matte art paper with 12 pt covers.

A set of eight 8x10 prints comes with the book. (US only) They're printed on 18 pt cardstock with a matte film lamination (the same coating on our jackets and covers) to help make them water resistant. The selected paintings are: Skating on Central Park, Snap the Whip, The Life Line, Sunlight on the Coast, Carnival, Prisoners from the Front, Eagle Head, and The Gulf Stream.

Books purchased from any other retailer are the print-on-demand edition, with a different isbn and printed on 70# paper with 10 pt covers. Page 68 is blank, it does not feature Mending Nets as an extra painting. And there are no prints.