Looking Over The Cliff, from The Century Magazine, November 1883

Art Historical Context

**Looking Over The Cliff** is a striking wood engraving by Winslow Homer, published in *The Century Magazine* in November 1883. Homer, a pioneering American Realist known for his vivid depictions of nature and everyday life, began his career as an illustrator magazines like *Harper's Weekly*. By the 1880s, he had transitioned toward monumental paintings of the sea and wilderness, but continued contributing dynamic prints that captured the era's spirit of exploration and rugged individualism in post-Civil War America. graphic arts print, featuring a female figure poised at a mountain's edge, ...

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...