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    • "Saco Bay" by Winslow Homer (1896). Oil on canvas.

      If any painter has captured the rugged beauty of Maine's coast - the thrilling play of water and light against rock - it has to be Winslow Homer (1836-1910). "He's a realist and he's a naturalist," said Mark Bessiere, director of the Portland Museum of Art. "He's interested in telling you about the power of nature in a single wave. He wants you to feel the spray, be in that painting itself."

      Credit: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

    • Winslow Homer is pictured c. 1900 in his painting room at Prout's Neck, Me., with his work "The Gulf Stream."

      Born in Boston in 1836, Homer's father was a businessman, his mother a watercolorist. He got his start as a combat artist, working for Harper's Weekly during the Civil War.

      Before he settled in Maine, Homer lived and worked in New York, and studied in Europe, too, but his work was always distinctly American.

      Credit: Bowdoin College Museum of Art

    • "The Life Line" (1884) by Winslow Homer. Etching printed in blue, on cream wove paper.

      Credit: Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

    • "Weatherbeaten" by Winslow Homer (1894). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Portland Museum of Art,

    • The Portland Museum of Art has just finished a 5-year, $2.8 million renovation of the Winslow Homer's studio at Prout's Neck, Me., which is now open to the public for the first time.

      To celebrate the studio's opening, the Portland Museum has mounted a new exhibit, titled "Weatherbeaten: The Late Art of Winslow Homer," devoted to the work he produced at Prout's Neck.

      Credit: Trent Bell/Portland Museum of Art

    • Winslow Homer moved to the land in Prout's Neck, purchased by his brother, and settled into the Carriage House, which served as his home and studio for a quarter-century, until his death in 1910. It was purchased by the Portland Museum of Art from Homer's great-grand nephew.

      Credit: Trent Bell/Portland Museum of Art

    • The painting room of Winslow Homer's studio in Prout's Neck, Me.

      Credit: Trent Bell/Portland Museum of Art

    • "Bringing in the Nets" by Winslow Homer (1887). Watercolor on paper.

      Credit: Portland Museum of Art

    • "West Point, Prout's Neck" by Winslow Homer (1900). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

    • "Blown Away" by Winslow Homer (circa 1888). Watercolor and graphite on paper.

      Credit: Brooklyn Museum

    • "Early Morning After a Storm at Sea" by Winslow Homer (1900-1902). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Cleveland Museum of Art

    • "Gloucester, Mackerel Fleet at Sunset" by Winslow Homer (1884). Oil on panel.

      Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    • "Eastern Point" by Winslow Homer (1900). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

    • "On a Lee Shore" by Winslow Homer (1900). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design

    • "The Fog Warning" by Winslow Homer (1887). Etching on paper.

      Credit: The Berger Collection

    • "Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine" by Winslow Homer (1894). Watercolor on wove paper.

      Credit: Art Institute of Chicago

    • "Eight Bells" by Winslow Homer (1886). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy

    • "The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog" by Winslow Homer (1894). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

    • "Watching the Breakers - A High Sea" by Winslow Homer (1896). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Arkell Museum at Canajoharie

    • "A Fishing Schooner, Prout's Neck" by Winslow Homer (1884).

      Credit: Colby College Museum of Art

    • "The Fisher Girl" by Winslow Homer (1894). Oil on canvas.

      Credit: Mead Art Museum, Amhest College

    • The parlor of Winslow Homer's studio.

      Credit: Trent Bell/Portland Museum of Art

    • Winslow Homer's studio, where his signature is still visible on the windowpane.

      "Weatherbeaten: The Late Art of Winslow Homer ", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Me. (through December 30, 2012)
      Tours of Winslow Homer's studio on Prout's Neck are limited to small groups and can be arranged through the Portland Museum of Art
      Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Me.
      National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
      Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

      By CBSNews.com senior editor David Morgan

      Credit: Trent Bell/Portland Museum of Art