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82nd and Fifth

Sea Change

H. Barbara Weinberg
2 min. watch
This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“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.

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H. Barbara Weinberg
Curator Emerita of American Paintings and Sculpture, The American Wing

Art Mentioned

Northeaster, Winslow Homer American, Oil on canvas, American
Northeaster
Winslow Homer
1895; reworked by 1901

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