Softcover
2012 · Philadelphia
by Foster, Kathleen A.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Softcover. VG. light edge-toning to pgs.. Color pictorial wraps, French flaps, 132 pp., color and BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition focusing on this one singular painting by Winslow Homer. Locates it "within the tradition of shipwreck paintings from the seventeenth century onward, as well as in relation to Homer's earlier and later work, which also featured themes of disaster, suspense, and salvation." (flap) The exhibition checklist cites 78 pieces, and all seem to be pictured here. Includes exhibition history of the main painting, as well as a bibliography.
(Inventory #: 162224)