Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed by Winslow Homer, Philip C. Beam. 1990. Softcover. (LF)

A collection of essays that focuses on the artist's time at his Maine home, Prout's Neck, and examines how this environment inspired his paintings, particularly his increasingly abstract and subjective seascapes of the 1890s, exploring themes of nature's force and transcendence. The essays, which accompanied a traveling exhibition, feature color plates of Homer's works, family photographs, and scholarship on his evolving artistic focus from human narratives to the raw power and beauty of the ocean itself.