‘Winslow Homer and the Poetics Of Place’ Get a Brilliant Showing At the Portland Museum of Art
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One of our favorite stories about painting concerns an amateur who, alone on a desolate stretch of coast, was working at a French easel, trying to capture the surf, when he became aware of someone behind him. He turned around and the stranger asked whether the painter would mind whether he watched. The painter had no objection and promptly became lost again in his work. When, an hour later, he turned around, the stranger was gone.
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