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I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
| - Winslow Homer, when asked for a few descriptive lines about The Gulf Stream |
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago NEW! Mini-site for the 2008 exhibition Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources Detailed information about the artist and his works
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio Snap the Whip, 1872
Winslow Homer at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Many works by Winslow Homer
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Winslow Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  41 works by Winslow Homer online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris Commentary on Summer Night
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
Winslow Homer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 37 works by Winslow Homer
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Perils of the Sea, 1888 (Zoom)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Weaning the Calf, 1875
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 3 works online
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  A Game of Croquet
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  The Old Mill (Morning Bell)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Drawing attributed to Winslow Homer
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Works by Winslow Homer
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Crossing the Pasture
Amon Carter Museum, Texas Blyth Sands
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe The Morning Bell, 1873
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe Corn Husking, 1874
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York 4 paintings online
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW! 2 works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Making Hay
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Various works by and several photographs of the artist
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW! The Houses of Parliament, 1881
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Girl Picking Clover (Houghton Farm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (You may need to click "I accept these terms") Hauling in Anchor
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (You may need to click "I accept these terms") Sunday Morning in Virginia
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Two Guides, ca.1875
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Undertow, 1886
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts River Scene, Florida, ca.1904
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts An October Day, watercolor, 1889
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Fishing, 1875
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Girl in the Hammock, 1873
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine The Trapper, 1870
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Haymaking, 1864
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City 3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 3 works online
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas A new museum scheduled to open in 2009 Spring, 1878
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida The White Rowboat, St. Johns River, 1890
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 19 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Casting in the Falls, 1889
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Guides Shooting Rapids, 1895
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts "Anything For Me if You Please?" - Post-Office of the Brooklyn Fair, 1864
Denver Art Museum, Colorado Two Figures by the Sea
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 25 paintings, 7 of which are online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont The Tent (Summer By The Sea), ca.1874
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma Watching the Brakers, 1891
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina Note that the JPG image for "Ship Building" is displayed smaller than its actual size
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Girl on a Swing, pencil drawing, 1879
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Girl on a Swing, watercolor, 1879
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York A Good One, Adirondacks, 1889
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York Adirondack Guide, ca.1876
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois Cerney la Ville, 1867
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi Fisherman's Wife, 1873 (PDF document)
Winslow Homer in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Maryland State Archives
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts Inland Waters, 1901
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York 74 works listed
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW! Eight Bells
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Hark! The Lark
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan Answering the Horn, 1876
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City Croquet Player, ca.1865
National Art Museum of Sport at Indiana University, Indianapolis
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Skirmish
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma The Army of the Potomac-A Sharp-Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 7 works by Winslow Homer online
Portland Museum of Art, Maine 12 works online (click the different thumbnails to see the different works)
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania On the Shore
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW! On a Lee Shore (see middle row)
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri The Country School, 1871
San Diego Museum of Art, California Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "H"
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska A Dark Hour - Tynemouth, charcoal drawing with wash
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Early Evening
Winslow Homer at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C. Sun and Clouds, 1882
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Cloud Shadows
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago 10 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Near Andersonville, 1866
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Beaver Mountain, ca.1876
The Parthenon, Tennessee Rab and the Girls (Over the Hills)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image - you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Sunlight on the Coast (requires Flash 5; mouseover thumbnails to see artworks)
Virtual Museum of Canada High Cliff, Coast of Maine, 1894
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania 3 works online
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Children on a Fence, 1874
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Old Friends, 1894 Boys and Kitten, 1873
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
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