Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910), the great American marine and landscape painter was born in Boston and had achieved an enviable artistic reputation before settling at Prout's Neck in Scarborough in 1883. However, it was in that studio on the coast of Maine that the artist produced such extraordinary oils as "A Summer Night," 1890; "West Point, Prout's Neck," 1900; "The Fox Hunt," 1893; "Weatherbeaten," 1894 and "Right and Left, 1909. Though immensely productive, Homer had little contact with the local art scene. Being a pioneer artist "from away" Homer found Maine a physical inspiration, relatively pressure free and an inexpensive place to work. Today examples of this work can be found in collections around the world, with some of his best paintings at the Portland Museum of Art and Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Philip C. Beam's Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck (Boston, 1966) is among the best of numerous biographical and museum publications.