{"id":8259,"date":"2021-06-26T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/?p=8259"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:30:58","slug":"sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-106-prouts-neck-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-106-prouts-neck-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"SKETCHBOOK TRAVELER: Dispatch #106: Prouts Neck, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a preview of Sketchbook Traveler: New England<\/em>.(Volume Three) Schiffer Publishing. Release\u00a0date: Fall 2022
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During his New York City years, Winslow Homer would hide out in his studio with a sign on the door that read, \u201cMr. Homer is not at home.\u201d Following a summer on Ten Pound Island and a two-year retreat in Cullercoats on the Northumbrian coast, Homer returned to the United States. During a visit to the Maine coast, he decided to establish a permanent residence and studio<\/a> at Prouts Neck, renovating a carriage house on property owned by his brother. He moved the building closer to the shoreline and provided the modest structure with a wraparound porch for painting in all seasons. Prouts Neck is connected to the mainland by a bottleneck rimmed with sandy beaches; its geology is the same as that of Cape Elizabeth\u2014folded and fissured Silurian bedrock crisscrossed by basaltic upflows. Revealed by ten-foot tides, crevasses draped with marine flora form tidal pools teeming with life. In violent weather, rough seas crash against the shore, launching great plumes of spray that fall like rain on glistening rocks.<\/p>\n

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Winslow Homer (American; 1836\u20131910); Eastern Point; 1900. Oil on canvas; 30 1\/4 x 48 1\/2 in. (76.8 x 123.2 cm). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Williamstown; Massachusetts; 1955.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This tiny headland had been developed as an affluent enclave by Homer\u2019s brother. It was to become his muse for the rest of his days. Cultivating an image as a hermit, Homer remained very much in touch with the art-world; even lecturing art-dealers on market trends. Fitting to his reputation as a maritime painter, his drink of choice seems to have been rum. Once a visitor asked how so many empty bottles had gotten into the studio, Homer’s wry reply was that he had no idea. He never bought an empty bottle in his life. A child of Irish immigrants later recalled watching Homer sitting out on the rocks, at work on a canvas. Working at the Gem Theater on nearby Peak\u2019s Island, the teenage Sean Martin Aloysius Feeney fell in love with the movies. Hollywood later lionized him as John Ford.
\nHomer\u2019s studio has been preserved. It is maintained and interpreted for visitors by the Portland Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

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\nHomer’s Studio, Prout’s Neck. Courtesy Portland Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now available to own: Sketchbook Traveler: Hudson Valley
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Explore my Quaranteam Dispatches<\/a>, from April 1-June 8, 2020
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\u00a9 James Lancel McElhinney 2021.
\n(All images reproduced under Fair Use for critical and educational purposes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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