Winslow Homer: Painter, Etcher' on Exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) is mounting its first major exhibition devoted to Winslow Homer’s etching practice, presenting works through Oct. 18, 2026. The show highlights how the 19th-century American artist explored printmaking, often using his oil paintings and watercolors as the basis for etchings. Many of the etchings were made while Homer lived at his Prouts Neck studio in Scarborough, Maine, where he stayed from the summer of 1883 until his death. The exhibit pairs this rarely seen body of prints with related paintings and watercolors, including a rescue-at-sea subject featuring a breeches buoy. It also covers Homer’s connections to the sea, including his 1881–1882 time in England’s Cullercoats and a watercolor on storm watch by the Volunteer Life Brigade.