Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington

FAIN: GI-269669-20

Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME 04101-3802)
Diana Greenwold (Project Director: August 2019 to January 2023)

Implementation of a traveling exhibition exploring the lives and sociocultural impacts of painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861–1909) on fin-de-siècle America. 

With more than fifty paintings, watercolors, illustrations, and sculptures, Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, brings together many of Homer and Remington’s most iconic oil paintings, watercolors, and sculptures to examine how each embodied a quintessential American identity for audiences at the turn of the century. This timely and vital project explores the ways in which Homer’s late marine seascapes and Remington’s visions of the Western plains responded to profound cultural and social changes in the United States in the late 19th-century, and how these linkages resonate in contemporary society.

Associated Products

Homer / Remington (Catalog)
Title: Homer / Remington
Author: Jennifer Henneman
Author: Diana Greenwold
Author: Maggie Adler
Author: Thomas Smith
Abstract: Homer|Remington, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington, is an exploration of the unexpected resonances between the themes, artistic sensibilities, and technical process of contemporaries Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington. This is the first project to compare the work of two American artists who have, perhaps more than any other practitioners of their moment, shaped this country’s perceptions about its landscapes and its peoples. Co-organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA), the Denver Art Museum (DAM), and the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), this exhibition and catalogue explore the social and cultural context in which Homer and Remington rose to prominence to reveal their shared role in creating foundational stories about the United States. The exhibition is jointly curated by Diana Greenwold, Associate Curator of American Art at the PMA, Maggie Adler, Curator of American Art at the ACMAA, Thomas Smith, Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the DAM, and Jennifer Henneman, Assistant Curator of Western American Art at the DAM.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://https://www.worldcat.org/title/homer-remington/oclc/1153392845&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: The real thing: Homer, Remington, and the American empirical tradition Adam Gopnik PrologueThomas Brent Smith Materialize the spirit: Homer and Remington as painters of sensation Margaret C. Adler One degree of separation: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington in New York City Jennifer R. Henneman A gallop and a gondola ride: Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer at the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition Diana Jocelyn Greenwald Along the same lines: comparing the painting techniques of Homer and Remington Claire M. Barry and Peter G. M. Van de Moortel From Harper's Weekly to the Met: a Homer and Remington chronology Janelle Montgomery.
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: self-published by the three co-organizing institutions: PMA, ACMAA, and DAM (distributed by Yale University Press)

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