WINSLOW HOMER: “Summer night” - 1890 - oil on canvas, 76.7- 102 cm. - Paris, Musée d' Orsay

When talking about Impressionism, an error is often committed when considering it an exclusively French movement, when some North American painters deserve to appear next to Monet, Degas, Pisarro… Of all of them, the most important is with no doubt Winslow Homer, an original and innovating artist with a special talent for the seascapes (The Gulf Stream , 1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art) In his last years, Homer moved to a small New England coastal town, where he begins to paint the life of the sailors. The spontaneity with which the artist represents the charm and magic of a summer night makes of this painting one of the masterworks of the North American painting.