The Winslow Homer Project

Mr. Sanford:

By the standards of this forum, I am still a greenhorn. Some of YOU may be old enough to be the gunner or the boatman, but as a young pup of 54 just coming into the arthritis years, I am not.

Black Point is the chunk of high rock at the end of the long sand and marsh peninsula of Prout's Neck--or at least that's how I've always seen it.

I just looked it up on a topo map and the NOAA Chart and was surprised to find that Black Point does not appear on either. Among the rusticators who call the place home for a few months a year, Prout's Neck and Black Point are used pretty interchangeably. The summer colony's golf club and yacht club are both "Prout's Neck"; the Inn between them is Black Point Inn. For just under a million, you could be one of them--and buy your home from "Doris Homer Real Estate, Inc.", no less! https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20-Garrison-Ln-Scarborough-ME-04074/112638760_zpid/






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PS

I am pretty sure I know how "Shooting Rocks" got named, and Massacre Pond is so named for Native American/English battle in "King Phillip's War", sometimes known as the Black Point Massacre. (Even then most of the English dead were summer complaints from Massachusetts.)

http://scarboroughhistoricalsociety.org/2017/07/a-doleful-slaughter-near-black-point/

But I REALLY want to know how the "Old Proprietor" got its name.

I love hunting and fishing a place with history.
 
Good morning, Jeff~


Not to distract much-deserved light from Bob's masterpiece, but....


I read one book about King Philip's War - Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower. As I recall, the very first attack by the Wampanoags was spotted by a couple of duckhunters (no, not I) hidden in a marsh.....


All the best,


SJS





 

A Winslow Homer, related story.

Jim Schmiedlin admired Winslow Homer's work very much. The Herring Net, Jim once told me, if I recall was his favorite. Jim was a Navy man, and layout gunner, and as stated already, the admiration and connection is understandable.


When some members of the Ohio Decoy Collectors & Carvers Association were invited to examine the decoys, in the collection of the Butler Museum Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. Jim was one of the members.


The Butler is the home of Winslow Homer's, Snap the Whip, 1872, the keystone of their collection. Folks come from near and far to view it.


Gist of the story, as my buddy Ken Yacavone related to me.

While in a discussion with the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Butler. Jim said how much he admired Winslow Homer, and that he had some of his paintings at home. Quality prints of course, but Jim had a very wry sense of humor at times. A quality many masters of their craft & art have.


All artists stand on the shoulders of prior artists, no matter how great, or unknown, from past to present.


Mr. Furia's work is solid proof, and pays homage to that.

Thank You Bob.



Best regards
Vince
 
Vince,
When Jim and Todd and our wives visited Butler we were lucky enough to run into Dr Zona the curator. Having known him from school Dr Zona said Did you see the new framing on Snap The Whip? Then took us to see it. $10,000 dollar hand carved frame with steel reinforcement and the latest non glare glass.
Jim said Ken gave me Snap the Whip,( a print I couldn't use anymore). Dr Zona looked at me and I said I told him I chiseled you down and bought it for him.
Dr then related how they turned down 75 million for the painting. He then related how Bill Gates collects Homers and he felt he was behind the offer.
Ken
 
That work you have displayed is beyond breathtaking! A man of many talents. Thanks so much for taking the time to show us what you did.
Al
 
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