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Winslow Homer, Painter | |
| Among America's greatest landscape painters. | ||
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Boston-born artist Winslow
Homer (1836-1910) began his
career as a magazine illustrator of
Civil War scenes.
When he was 40 years old,
he took up painting full time, and developed
a
direct, realistic and very colorful
style.
Working at Prouts Neck ME,
he rendered the beautiful but tempestuous
Maine
coast as no other artist has done.
His
naval
and maritime oils and watercolors
hold a unique prominence in American
art.
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The Maine coast: Homer's favorite subject.
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