"On the Bluff at Long Branch, at the Bathing Hour" reads the caption of this engraving by Winslow Homer that appeared in the Aug. 6, 1870, issue of Harper's Weekly.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is currently featuring five exhibitions for the month of November.
Winslow Homer's America features the work of the painter and watercolorist best known for his landscapes and sea studies of New England and Florida. Homer's illustrations of the Civil War were featured in Harper's Weekly. His quasi-Impressionist style has been said to have greatly influenced the style of American painting in the late 1800s. The works on display at the Johnson through Jan. 5 were donated to Cornell by John Romanow '70 in honor of his father, Harold D. Romanow '29. The works span almost two decades, from 1858 to 1875, and include his Civil War illustrations.
Also featured this fall at the Johnson are Two in Montana: Deborah Butterfield and John Buck, which features the work of this husband and wife artistic team; Pop Art, featuring the images of advertising, commercial illustration and mass-produced objects, from the talents of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and others; an exhibition of works by faculty of the Cornell Department of Art; and The Power of Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, featuring the depictions of Eve, the Virgin Mary and Venus by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and others.