Winslow Homer

Museum founder Charles Lang Freer considered renowned painter Winslow Homer to be one of his “miscellaneous Americans,” a term Freer used for a group of artists whose works he admired but did not collect in great numbers. Freer’s artworks by this American master are now on view, including three technically innovative watercolors and the monumental oil painting Early Evening. Homer began work on it in 1881 in Cullercoats, England, and completed it in 1907 in his studio in Prouts Neck, Maine.