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Detail of The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010
The Fog Warning
Halibut Fishing
1885
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910
Dimensions: 76.83 x 123.19 cm (30 1/4 x 48 1/2 in.)
Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession Number: 94.72
Winslow Homer made his reputation in the 1860s with images of the Union troops during the Civil War and of the returning veterans afterward. In the late 1860s and 1870s he turned to lighter subject matter and found an equally enthusiastic audience for his paintings of healthy, handsome children playing in the country or at the seashore, and of adults enjoying leisure time pursuits. However, perhaps feeling the need for greater seriousness in his art, Homer spent 1881-82 in Cullercoats, ...England. Both a fishing village and an artists' colony, Cullercoats provided Homer with new, more profound themes: the arduous lives of fishermen and their families. Shortly after returning to the United States late in 1882, he settled in Prout's Neck, Maine, similarly both a fishing community and in summer a pleasant resort, where he painted the local population and their work. Fog Warning is one of three paintings he produced at Prout's Neck in 1885 describing the lives of the North Atlantic fishermen.
Like many of his 1870s images featuring farm children, Fog Warning is a story-telling picture. However, its story is disturbing rather than charming. As is indicated by the halibut in his dory, the fisherman in this picture has been successful. But the hardest task of the day, the return to the main ship, is still ahead of him. He turns to look at the horizon, measuring the distance to the mother ship, and to safety. The seas are choppy, and the dory rocks high on the waves, making it clear that the journey home will require considerable physical effort. But more threatening is the approaching fog bank, whose streamers echo-even mock-the fisherman's profile. Contemporary descriptions of the fishing industry in New England make clear that the protagonist's plight-the danger of losing sight of his vessel-was an all-too-familiar one.
The dramatic tension of Fog Warning is all the greater because Homer does not specify the fisherman's fate. However, Homer's Lost on the Grand Banks, another painting in the series, shows that the fishermen's peril was a deadly one. An account from the 1876 history The Fisheries of Gloucester of the insidious horrors to which the fishermen were prey could well have served as a description of Fog Warning: "His frail boat rides like a shell upon the surface of the sea…a moment of carelessness or inattention, or a slight miscalculation, may cost him his life. And a greater foe than carelessness lies in wait for its prey. The stealthy fog enwraps him in its folds, blinds his vision, cuts off all marks to guide his course, and leaves him afloat in a measureless void."
This text was adapted from Davis, et al., MFA Highlights: American Painting (Boston, 2003) available at www.mfashop.com/mfa-publications.html.
Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-fog-warning-31042
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Halibut Fishing
1885
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910
Dimensions: 76.83 x 123.19 cm (30 1/4 x 48 1/2 in.)
Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession Number: 94.72
Winslow Homer made his reputation in the 1860s with images of the Union troops during the Civil War and of the returning veterans afterward. In the late 1860s and 1870s he turned to lighter subject matter and found an equally enthusiastic audience for his paintings of healthy, handsome children playing in the country or at the seashore, and of adults enjoying leisure time pursuits. However, perhaps feeling the need for greater seriousness in his art, Homer spent 1881-82 in Cullercoats, ...England. Both a fishing village and an artists' colony, Cullercoats provided Homer with new, more profound themes: the arduous lives of fishermen and their families. Shortly after returning to the United States late in 1882, he settled in Prout's Neck, Maine, similarly both a fishing community and in summer a pleasant resort, where he painted the local population and their work. Fog Warning is one of three paintings he produced at Prout's Neck in 1885 describing the lives of the North Atlantic fishermen.
Like many of his 1870s images featuring farm children, Fog Warning is a story-telling picture. However, its story is disturbing rather than charming. As is indicated by the halibut in his dory, the fisherman in this picture has been successful. But the hardest task of the day, the return to the main ship, is still ahead of him. He turns to look at the horizon, measuring the distance to the mother ship, and to safety. The seas are choppy, and the dory rocks high on the waves, making it clear that the journey home will require considerable physical effort. But more threatening is the approaching fog bank, whose streamers echo-even mock-the fisherman's profile. Contemporary descriptions of the fishing industry in New England make clear that the protagonist's plight-the danger of losing sight of his vessel-was an all-too-familiar one.
The dramatic tension of Fog Warning is all the greater because Homer does not specify the fisherman's fate. However, Homer's Lost on the Grand Banks, another painting in the series, shows that the fishermen's peril was a deadly one. An account from the 1876 history The Fisheries of Gloucester of the insidious horrors to which the fishermen were prey could well have served as a description of Fog Warning: "His frail boat rides like a shell upon the surface of the sea…a moment of carelessness or inattention, or a slight miscalculation, may cost him his life. And a greater foe than carelessness lies in wait for its prey. The stealthy fog enwraps him in its folds, blinds his vision, cuts off all marks to guide his course, and leaves him afloat in a measureless void."
This text was adapted from Davis, et al., MFA Highlights: American Painting (Boston, 2003) available at www.mfashop.com/mfa-publications.html.
Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-fog-warning-31042
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