“The sea is a universal realm, and it’s a place that we don’t really understand.”
Curator H. Barbara Weinberg explains Winslow Homer’s Northeaster from the turn of the twentieth century.
Sea Change
H. Barbara Weinberg
2 min. watch
Contributor
H. Barbara Weinberg
Curator Emerita of American Paintings and Sculpture, The American Wing
Curator Emerita of American Paintings and Sculpture, The American Wing
Art Mentioned
Winslow Homer
1895; reworked by 1901
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