Desperately Seeking Home

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

The Red Canoe Winslow Homer

Not too long ago, geologically speaking, Ann and I drove to New York to deliver a van-load of watercolor paintings to a gallery for a solo exhibition of my work. The exhibition was to be up for a month, after which we could retrieve paintings still unsold and move them to the next venue. We decided to use the time in between for a little East Coast driving adventure and seek out as many Winslow Homer watercolors on display as we could between Garrison, New York and Prout’s Neck, Maine, where Homer lived.

We saddled-up the Westphalia and made our first destination Glens Falls, New York, to see the Hyde Collection pieces. These include works from Homer’s painting trips to Cullercoats and the Adirondacks, featuring A Good One, Adirondacks - a real tour-de-force. Pushing on into Massachusetts, we visited the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown and then the Worcester Art Museum. What an education it wa…