Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
August 3, 2019 - December 1, 2019

This summer, the Cape Ann Museum will exhibit some 50 original works by renowned American artist Winslow Homer. The exhibition will be the first close examination of the formation of this great artist as a marine painter. The Cape Ann Museum will be the sole venue for this exhibition, which will include loans from some 40 public and private collections. The Arkell Museum has loaned three of our Homer paintings: On the Beach, 1869; The See-Saw, ca. 1873; and Woman on the Beach, Marshfield, 1874. Of special note is the exciting reunion of the Arkell Museum's On the Beach and Beach Scene from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain) seen below right (the Arkell Museum's On the Beach is the larger painting on the right). Homer cut the canvas apart after receiving scathing reviews at the National Academy of Design in 1869. Their 2019 reunion is a rare moment in art history!