On view this season at Prouts Neck
Winslow Homer Studio
A working painter’s house at the edge of the Atlantic, kept as he left it. Curator-led tours run Thursday through Sunday from May through October — advance reservation required.
Currently on view
Tidal Shift: Maine’s Coast in Three Centuries
The summer’s anchoring exhibition gathers more than ninety works — oil, watercolor, photogravure, and a freshly commissioned video piece — around a single insistent question. What does a coastline owe the people who claim it, and what does it owe itself?
Visitors enter through the Susie Konkel Family Gallery, where a wall of nautical charts dating to 1742 sets the room’s temperature. From there the show moves outward, decade by decade, until it reaches a darkened room of contemporary commissions.
Read the full review →From the curator
Why we kept the Homer studio cold
The temptation, when restoring a painter’s last home, is to make it comfortable. We resisted. The wood floor still creaks. The north window still admits the wind it always did. The studio is preserved, not prettified, and the experience reflects that decision.
What the visitor leaves with, on a good morning, is something closer to working knowledge than to nostalgia — a sense of how Homer’s last paintings emerged from a room that demanded his attention as much as he demanded its quiet.
Read the curator’s essay →In the calendar
Third Thursdays return, and a quiet morning for members
The museum’s long-running Third Thursday series resumes this week with extended evening hours, free admission from 4 to 8 PM, and a Noontime Talk on the conservation of nineteenth-century pastels. Members are reminded that Mindful Museum mornings continue every second Saturday.
The shop will host a small reception for the season’s new artist editions, and the café is taking reservations through the end of June. The Travel Program returns in October with a cross-country journey to the Hudson Valley.
See the full calendar →