Fog Warning. The Fog Warning is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer.
Together with The Herring Net and Breezing Up, painted the same year and also depicting the hard lives of fishermen in Maine, it is considered among his best works on such topics. After initially making his reputation with paintings on themes related to the Civil War, in the late 1860s and through the 1870s Winslow Homer turned instead to painting people relaxing and at play: children, young women, genre paintings of farm and sea scenes.
In 1881-82 he spent time in Cullercoats, in northeast England, and on his return to the US, settled for good in Prout's Neck, Maine, where his father and brother had recently purchased a large amount of land. His brother had spent his honeymoon in Prout's Neck in 1875, and Winslow had visited him then.
In both these locations he returned to painting the sea with more serious themes, the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen and their families, and humankind's life-and-death struggles against the sea and the elemental power of nature throughout the rest of his career. He had a studio built for him in Prout's Neck, which was completed in 1884.
Here he painted The Fog Warning, one of his three best paintings he completed there in 1885 depicting the lives of the local fishermen. These are considered among his best; the others
Together with The Herring Net and Breezing Up, painted the same year and also depicting the hard lives of fishermen in Maine, it is considered among his best works on such topics. After initially making his reputation with paintings on themes related to the Civil War, in the late 1860s and through the 1870s Winslow Homer turned instead to painting people relaxing and at play: children, young women, genre paintings of farm and sea scenes.
In 1881-82 he spent time in Cullercoats, in northeast England, and on his return to the US, settled for good in Prout's Neck, Maine, where his father and brother had recently purchased a large amount of land. His brother had spent his honeymoon in Prout's Neck in 1875, and Winslow had visited him then.
In both these locations he returned to painting the sea with more serious themes, the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen and their families, and humankind's life-and-death struggles against the sea and the elemental power of nature throughout the rest of his career. He had a studio built for him in Prout's Neck, which was completed in 1884.
Here he painted The Fog Warning, one of his three best paintings he completed there in 1885 depicting the lives of the local fishermen. These are considered among his best; the others
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