High+Cliff,+Coast+of+Maine

Date: 1894
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1909/1909.7.29_1a.jpg?itok=kKwnhtB1 width="358" height="284" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/high-cliff-coast-maine-10725"]] || Title: **High Cliff, Coast of Maine**

Artist: **Winslow Homer** Born: Boston, Massachusetts 1836 Died: Prout's Neck, Maine 1910

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: overall: 30 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. (76.8 x 97.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum  Gift of William T. Evans

Accession: 1909.7.29 || The ocean wages a mighty and relentless assault on a rocky cliff at Prout's Neck, Maine, where Winslow Homer took refuge from civilization for thirty years. Two small figures at the upper right provide the only hint of man's witness to the natural drama. Homer was despondent when the painting did not sell quickly, saying, “I cannot do better than that. Why should I paint?”
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