Winslow Homer in the 1870s: A Time of Crisis in American Culture
A free public symposium, "Winslow Homer in the 1870’s: A Time of Crisis in American Culture" will be held on Friday and Saturday September 25 and 26 that will investigate a little discussed decade of American history and its impact on Homer’s work. The symposium’s keynote address will be given on Saturday at 4 pm by Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of History of Art, Indiana University. Her address will be preceded by presentations from Erin Crissman, Curator, The Farmers’ Museum, Judith C. Walsh, Associate Professor of Paper Conservation, Buffalo State College, Kenneth Haltman, H. Russell Pitman Professor of Art History, School of Art and Art History, University of Oklahoma, and David Tatham, Emeritus Professor, Fine Arts Department, Syracuse University. Also, on view at the Syracuse University Art Galleries through October 11 is the exhibition “Winslow Homer’s Empire State” consisting of 27 works by Homer in addition to one supplemental object, a book by American author Edward Payson Roe. The works by Homer include watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings and ceramic tiles depicting geographic locations across eastern New York State, including Houghton Farm, the Catskills, the Adirondacks and East Hampton. On loan from SU Special Collections, Roe’s 1885 work “Driven Back to Eden” (New York: Dodd, Mead) includes a chapter describing a visit to Houghton Farm.
