PMA Explorer

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Two works in conversation

Drop 2–4 works side by side and read across. Click any column to open the full record. Build a comparison by appending ?ids=accession,accession to the URL — or pick from the demo suggestion below.

Weatherbeaten

Weatherbeaten

Winslow Homer · 1894

Castine Harbor

Castine Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane · 1852

Read across · curator-tuned model

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Placeholder narrative. These works — Weatherbeaten (Winslow Homer, 1894); Castine Harbor (Fitz Henry Lane, 1852) — have been pulled from different rooms of the Portland Museum of Art so the visitor can read them against one another. Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and re-run `python scripts/generate_compare.py 1988.55.1 1996.38.29` to replace this with a curator-grade essay grounded only in the cataloged metadata.

RAG retrieval · 6 related works pulled from the 77-work index by TF-IDF similarity

Generated 2026-05-07· grounded only in the works’ catalog metadata

TitleWeatherbeatenCastine Harbor
ArtistWinslow HomerFitz Henry Lane
Year18941852
Mediumoil on canvasoil on canvas
Dimensions28 1/2 x 48 3/8 inches20 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
CategoryAmerican ArtAmerican Art
Accession1988.55.11996.38.29
Credit lineBequest of Charles Shipman PaysonBequest of Elizabeth B. Noyce
Dominant color#2d1a14(red)#be9377(orange)

Span: 18521894 · 2 works · share via ?ids=1988.55.1,1996.38.29