American Art Collaborative

In 1881 Winslow Homer traveled to Cullercoats, England. There he found a thriving industrial and maritime city, home to the North Sea fishing fleet. Homer explored the nature of the sea and the working people of Cullercoats, like the steadfast fisherwomen in this charcoal drawing. The trip may have influenced the artist’s decision to move to the coast of Maine in 1883, where the focus of his art became the dramatic interaction of man and the sea.