A Hurricane, Growing Hemp, On Abaco Island, A Flower Seller, Conch Divers, from The Century Magazine, February 1887
1887
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Ray Austrian Collection, gift of Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James A. Austrian
Accession Number
1996.63.212
Tags
Art Historical Context
Winslow Homer, a master of American Realism, captured the raw drama of Caribbean life in this 1887 graphic arts print from *The Century Magazine*. Titled *A Hurricane, Growing Hemp On Abaco Island, Flower Seller, Conch*, it features a series of vignettes depicting coastal scenes on Abaco Island in the Bahamas: fierce hurricanes battering ships, hemp cultivation, flower sellers, and conch divers harvesting shellfish from the sea. Homer's keen eye for detail brings to life the perils and rhythms of island existence, with tags like "conch," "ship," "fishing," and "coast" evoking a world of hardy ...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...