Winslow Homer
BY THE SEA
Oil on panel
6 1/4 x 12 1/4 in
15.9 x 31.1 cm
Available at Surovek Gallery
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) began his career as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly and other magazines. Harper’s sent him to the front lines during the American Civil War (1861-1865) where he sketched both battle scenes and quiet moments.
After the war, Homer painted American life as he saw it…with realistic and natural qualities that inspired many of the American artists who came after him.
Homer was born in Boston, and spent much of his adult life in New York until moving to Prout’s Neck, Maine in 1883. Homer’s brother, Charles, a Harvard-educated chemist, bought property in Prout’s Neck to serve as the family’s estate.
Homer remodeled a carriage house on the property, overlooking the ocean, into a home and studio. It was there that Homer painted many of his best known works, like By the Sea, available at Surovek Gallery.
Stephen Scott Young (b. 1957) has been called a “modern Winslow Homer.” Young’s watercolors and etchings continue the Realist tradition, with an unmatched mastery of light and dark in each work.
“The impact of light is what is most important,” he said, “and I do it by balancing my dark and light and juxtaposing the forms that make up my subject so that they are as enlightened as possible. I first see in black and white, the color comes next.”
Young divides his time between Jupiter, Florida and the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera, the home of his wife’s family. Many of his paintings are glimpses of the the daily life young Bahamians, like Windermere, a recent acquisition.
An exhibition of the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit covers thirty years of Frankenthaler’s large, sweeping works.
Frankenthaler’s technique and vision was an inspiration to many artists and led to numerous accolades and honors throughout her lifetime, including the National Medal of Arts and the prestigious Premium Imperiale.
In 1966 she became the first woman artist to represent the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski.
Beyond Venice ll, a recent acquisition, combines her original soak-staining technique and landscape shapes that define her work.
Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep will be on view at MoMA through February 8, 2026.
Other recent acquisitions are work by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Adolf Dehn, Anthony Thieme and Serge Strosberg.
Please contact us if you would like more information about the works available at Surovek Gallery.
References:
Amanda Gluibizzi. Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep. The Brooklyn Rail/Art Seen. January 2026.
