Homer makes the bungalow flinch. In his Bermuda watercolors, he pits a bleached wall against the dense shade under a low roofline, so that the house, rather than the sea beyond it, becomes the site of pressure. No wave breaks.The gamble is audacious. Homer's value structure does the hard work: sharp luminance contrast turns limewashed planes into exposed surfaces, while the porch shadow reads less...More