by Winslow Homer, 1885
Winslow Homer captured a solitary fisherman rowing his dory through building fog toward a distant schooner. The catch of halibut weighs down the small boat while the man scans the horizon, racing against the weather. One wrong turn could leave him lost in the grey void.
Homer based this on observations at Prout's Neck, Maine, where he lived among fishermen and understood the dangers they faced. The painting shows the solitary struggle against nature that defined his mature work. Every stroke of the oar could mean the difference between life and death.
The painting hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a landmark work of American marine painting.
Other masterpieces from the American Realism movement

Grant Wood, 1930
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Edward Hopper, 1942
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

John Singer Sargent, 1886
Tate Britain, London

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1930
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

John Singer Sargent, 1884
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eastman Johnson, 1862
Brooklyn Museum, New York

John Singer Sargent, 1882
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston

George Bellows, 1924
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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