| Small Point Club Speaker Series
Thursday, August 1 • 5:00pm
Dana Byrd
Bowdoin College Assistant Professor of Art
“Winslow Homer’s Photographic Travels”
The artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is best known for his moody representations of crashing surf against the rocky Maine coastline. The artist, however, was no recluse. He enjoyed traveling for pleasure in pursuit of new painting subjects. During the last decades of his life, with box camera and painting kit in hand, he produced a number of intriguing pictures which evince a photographic sensibility.
Winslow Homer, Eight Bells (1886)
Photo: Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY
Dana is a scholar of American art and material culture. Her research engages with questions of place and the role of objects in everyday life. She co-curated last summer’s Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibit, Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting , which SPC members toured, led by Bowdoin student intern, Miles Brautigam, ’19. |
