Northeaster Stretched on Gallery Canvas36 inch by 24 inch gallery wrapped giclee wall art reproduction. On the Maine coast, a noreaster is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas in 1895, it included two men in foul weather gear crouching on the rocks below a smaller column of spray. Even though the painting was well received and purchased by a leading collector of American artGeorge Hearn, who later donated it to the Metropolitan MuseumHomer