Paintings I love
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
West Point, Prouts Neck
1900
Oil on canvas, 76.4 x 122.2 cm
The Clark Art Institute
Seawater surges around massive rocks as bands of brilliant color stretch across the horizon, casting a rosy glow over the ocean. “The picture is painted fifteen minutes after sunset—not one minute before,” wrote Homer about this work, which he considered to be among his best paintings. To record such a fleeting moment, he explained, took “many days of careful observation” from a specific point along the Maine coast, near his studio in Prouts Neck.
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