Northeaster (painting)
| Northeaster | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Winslow Homer |
| Year | 1895 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 87.6 cm × 128 cm (34.5 in × 50 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, US |
| Accession | 10.64.5 |
| Website | www |
Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer. Like The Fog Warning and Breezing Up, he created it during his time in Maine. It is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Viewers are presented a struggle of elements between the sea and the rocky shore. Winslow Homer excelled in painting landscape paintings that depicted seascapes and mountain scenery.