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	Winslow Homer
		"The Homer sesquicentennial (he was born in 1836 and died in 1910) is being celebrated with "Winslow Homer Watercolors," organized by Helen Cooper at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Her catalogue is a landmark in Homer studies.
		Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods, with their complicated shuttle of vertical trunks against a fluid background of deep autumnal shade, are demonstration pieces of sinewy design.
		Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, by David Tatham.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/H/homer.html (1203 words)

	Lore Degenstein Gallery - "Winslow Homer"
		Homer's exposure to the world of print media began with his apprenticeship in Bufford's lithography shop in Boston, where he was confronted with the role of the artist in the new application of the inclusion of pictures with printed stories.
		Homer's involvement with the process was most likely limited to his drawing on the white, smooth surface of the hard wooden block that would have been cut by an engraver who eliminated all but the line which was then used in printing the image.
		Curiously, Homer's intentions did not appear to be directed toward social commentary on either the reconstruction at the end of the war or on the events of the industrial revolution, both of which would have engendered strong persuasive narrative illustrations.
	www.susqu.edu /art_gallery/homer/default.htm (776 words)

	Winslow Homer The Caldwell Gallery
		Winslow Homer was a largely self-taught artist who studied briefly with Fredrick Rondel in 1861 and took several night courses and the Nation Academy of Design.
		Homer grew up in Cambridge MA and at the age of 19 became an apprentice to a lithographer in Boston.
		Homer was best known for his marine paintings in oil and watercolor which portrayed men and women in constant struggle with the sea in deep emotional color and atmosphere.
	www.caldwellgallery.com /bios/homerbio.html (163 words)

	Winslow Homer Introduction Template
		Homer was mostly a self-taught artist whose talent was readily apparent from the start of his career.
		Homer sailed with the army down the Potomac toward Fortress Monroe and Yorktown in the Tidewater region.
		Homer subtly made this association himself in at least two of his works, in which the number “61” appears on a knapsack.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /homer_intro.html (658 words)

	Winslow Homer - MSN Encarta
		Winslow Homer (1836-1910), American naturalist painter, who is often considered, along with Thomas Eakins, one of the greatest American 19th-century artists.
		Born February 24, 1836, in Boston, Homer was almost entirely self-taught as a painter.
		In 1856 he spent a year in France, but although his interest in the painterly possibilities of natural light ran parallel to that of the early impressionists, he was not directly influenced by impressionism or French art.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555864/Winslow_Homer.html (453 words)

	Winslow Homer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Homer was apprenticed to a Boston commercial lithographer at the age of 19.
		Homer was a member of the The Tile Club, a group of artists and writers who met frequently to exchange ideas and organize outings for painting.
		Homer died at the age of 74 in his Prout's Neck studio and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winslow_Homer (767 words)

	Fenimore Art Museum - Winslow Homer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks includes thirteen of the artist's greatest works in watercolor and oil, along with twelve wood engravings from popular periodicals.
		Winslow Homer (1836-1910), widely regarded as the greatest of nineteenth-century American painters, was born in Boston and grew up in Cambridge and Belmont, Massachusetts.
		Winslow Homer first journeyed to the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York in 1870, at age thirty-four, when he was a rising star in his generation of American painters.
	www.fenimoreartmuseum.org /exhibitions/homer.htm (535 words)

	American Painting: Winslow Homer
		Homer was guided by a belief that the life of the imagination could be lived not in contradiction to but in consonance with the most prosaic practical tasks.
		The interest of the Homer painting is its ability, in effect, to marry the spiritually of the Burne-Jones with the tangibility of the Degas.
		The dreamer in Homer is ultimately compelled to turn outward or inward away from the social group and the realm of the senses to a state of meditation, reverie, or vision.
	people.bu.edu /rcarney/ampaintings/homer.shtml (2279 words)

	Winslow Homer Biography
		At the age of 19, Homer was apprenticed to J.H. Bufford's lithographic firm in Boston.
		Homer went to Paris that year, but little is known of his activities during the ten months he spent abroad.
		It is significant that, when Homer returned to Europe in 1881, he did not go back to Paris, which was bursting with American art students at the ateliers, but chose, instead, the small fishing community of Tynemouth, on the cold gray northeast coast of England.
	www.whitemountainart.com /Biographies/bio_wh.htm (280 words)

	Winslow Homer
		Winslow Homer began to gain acclaim as a painter in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
		Winslow Homer did in showing the beauty of America what many French Impressionists did for Europe, and his body of work will shine as a legacy to our great and beautiful nation.
		Homer's Sharpshooter is the singular most sought after illustration of the period, and continues to be highly prized by collectors and serious students of the Civil war.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /Winslow_Homer.htm (559 words)

	NewsHour Online: Winslow Homer
		Homer, known mainly for painting placid rural scenes, Snap the Whip and Crossing the Pasture, was also the painter of the Civil War and its soldiers, of reconstruction and freed slaves, of the sea and seafarers in Massachusetts and in Maine, and of the tropics in Key West, Florida.
		Homer's finished work appears oddly unfinished, as if he was painting on the run and implying that what I see is about to change.
		Homer's figures are all like the two women dancing on a summer night, slowly and formally dancing in the presence of shadowy figures and a shadowy sea, made alternately shimmering and dangerous by the cast of light.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/essays/homer_7-1.html (621 words)

	Winslow Homer Biography
		Winslow Homer was born February 24, 1836, and began his artistic life as a magazine illustrator.
		Winslow Homer is considered one of the finest American naturalist painters, and he worked in oils until 1873.
		He is widely known for the seascapes he did during these years, as well as his focus on the tyranny of the sea, with "Eight Bells" (1886) becoming one of his most well-known paintings.
	www.allaboutartists.com /bios/homer.html (465 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Boys and Kitten
		Homer's first serious use of watercolor may have been precipitated by an important exhibition in New York early in 1873.
		Employing saturated, opaque color, rather than the transparent washes that were to predominate in his later works, Homer worked from dark to light as he did in oil painting.
		As a watercolorist, holding the materials of his art in as high esteem as those of oil painting, Homer accorded his subjects a monumentality that raised the level of prestige for that medium.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/American/1911.1.html (209 words)

	Sagemore Prints (Winslow Homer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From the rocky shores of New England and the mountains of the Adirondacks to the palms of Florida and the tropics, Winslow Homer chronicled the American experience.
		Like the Impressionists, Homer preferred to work outdoors and was clearly interested in the effects of light on his subjects.
		Homer is frequently referred to as an American Impressionist, yet his work possesses a singular style and, in contrast to his French counterparts, displays an engaging sense of narrative and a uniquely straightforward approach.
	www.sagemore.com /homer.html (244 words)

	Winslow Homer - Print Exhibitions Tradeshow & Printing
		Homer, one of the most celebrated American artists of the nineteenth century, exhibited frequently at fashionable venues including the National Academy of Design, the American Society of Painters, and at prestigious private clubs in New York such as The Union League Club and Century Club, as well as at art galleries and auction houses.
		Between the years of 1861-1866 Homer produced a large number of Civil War illustrations for Harper's Weekly while living in New York and 'on assignment' in Virginia as a journalist/illustrator with the troops at the front.
		Homer's themes reveal a man seeking solitude and calm, yet he remains patient and very much at home with the rural activities of New England.
	www.printexhibitions.com /winslowhomer_page.htm (615 words)

	Amazon.ca: Winslow Homer Watercolors: Books: Helen A. Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Winslow Homer was a successful illustrator in his 30s when the American Society of Painters in Watercolor held a landmark international show in New York City.
		The author uses each chapter to analyze a different period of Homer's life as he, basically, self-taught himself through observation and experimentation based on where he lived, whether it was in the Bahamas, England, or the Northeast Atlantic coast of the United States.
		Homer's late works are very thought provoking, often showing heroic subjects or themes; they show nature's beauty and its power and humans' mortality.
	www.amazon.ca /Winslow-Homer-Watercolors-Helen-Cooper/dp/0300039972 (1097 words)

	Famous Floridians: Winslow Homer
		Winslow Homer was a self-taught American painter and illustrator.
		Homer’s many watercolor scenes of the tropics were painted in a technique considered advanced for the day.
		Winslow Homer is now considered a master of watercolors and one of the great painters of the sea.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /florida/lessons/homer/homer.htm (483 words)

	Winslow Homer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Acknowledged today as one of the world's greatest watercolorists, Winslow Homer grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was apprenticed in his teens to a lithographer in Boston.
		Homer achieved success as an illustrator through his ability to draw quickly and accurately.
		The small oil by Homer in Joslyn's collection, entitled Trooper Meditating Beside a Grave, may have been intended as a study for a larger work and was itself based on an earlier pencil sketch.
	www.joslyn.org /permcol/american/pages/whomer.html (257 words)

	WINSLOW HOMER - HIS WORK IS A MEDITATION ON LIFE AND NEARNESS OF DEATH
		"Winslow Homer shows in his "Lost on the Great Banks" a rude vigor and firm force that is almost a tonic in the midst of the namby-pambyism of many of his other pictures.
		The utter simplicity of the composition, the fidelity to local coloring, and spirited rendering of the wave tossed boat and its anxious occupants-these are elements characteristic of Mr.
		One of Homer's first paintings, "Prisoners From the Front," was exhibited to rave reviews at exhibitions in NY (1865) and in Paris (1867).
	www.antiquetalk.com /column_143.htm (571 words)

	Amazon.ca: Watercolors Of Winslow Homer: Books: Miles Unger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Though certainly more famous for his oil paintings, Winslow Homer was one of the first major artists to take watercolor seriously and to herald its acceptance in the 20th century as an art form in its own right, undertaken by stars like O'Keeffe, Prendergast and Hopper.
		Winslow Homer is without a doubt one of America's best-known artists and a popular subject for study.
		But any assessment of Homer's watercolors owes a great debt to the scholarship of Lloyd Goodrich (Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of Art, 1944) and Helen Cooper (Winslow Homer Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, 1986), and this work is no exception.
	www.amazon.ca /Watercolors-Winslow-Homer-Miles-Unger/dp/0393020479 (673 words)

	Winslow Homer: America’s Painter
		Winslow Homer was the second of three sons of Henrietta Benson and Charles Savage Homer.
		One of Homer’s best paintings from this period is called “Breezing Up.” It was shown for the first time in eighteen the rudder, which controls the direction of the boat.
		Winslow Homer died at Prouts Neck, Maine, in nineteen ten.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2006-03-05-voa2.cfm (1408 words)

	Homer's Prouts Neck Home
		The Portland Museum of Art is currently undergoing a major capital campaign to raise $8.3 million for the acquisition, preservation, and endowment of the Winslow Homer Studio.
		A registered National Historic Landmark, the renovated Winslow Homer Studio will be used to celebrate the artist's life, to encourage scholarship on Homer, and to educate audiences to appreciate the artistic heritage of Winslow Homer and Maine.
		The Museum's Homer collection includes such notable objects as his first oil painting, Sharpshooter; an original watercolor paint box; and a nearly comprehensive collection of 400 illustrations given to the Museum by Peggy and Harold Osher in 1991.
	www.portlandmuseum.org /about/homerstudio.shtml (251 words)

	Winslow Homer
		A highlight of the L. Sweat Galleries is the Winslow Homer Gallery, featuring paintings, watercolors, and graphics by this most beloved and acclaimed American artist.
		The Museum's collection of five pivotal oil paintings traces Homer's career from his early work as a Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly through the last two and a half decades of his life, which he spent on the coast of Maine.
		Homer's late seascapes, like the Museum's Weatherbeaten (1894), are alternately brooding and ecstatic, situating mankind within the natural drama of assault and resistance, struggle and survival.
	www.portlandmuseum.org /art/galleries/homer.shtml (207 words)

	Winslow Homer
		From the entrance, far across the Central and Vanderbilt Galleries, beckons a marine and a sea tragedy by Winslow Homer, N. A., which goes by the name, inadequately, of "The Gulf Stream." The brilliant blue waves and sharply defined hulk that rolls along without mast or bowsprit carry their massage to a great distance.
		As one approaches the figure of a powerful negro is seen on the wave-swept deck, and on a nearer view a school of sharks is seen lazily playing about the hull waiting for their living prey to be swept overboard.
		Homer's other contribution, "A Light on the Sea," is much less interesting.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/ragtime/homer.html (307 words)

	Winslow Homer — FactMonster.com
		Homer was born in Boston, where he later worked as a lithographer and illustrator.
		Although Homer excelled above all as a watercolorist, his oils and watercolors alike are characterized by directness, realism, objectivity, and splendid color.
		Winslow Homer: An American Original - Distributor: Devine Productions Ltd. Meet Winslow Homer as he tries to refocus his painting career...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0824048.html (325 words)

	Winslow Homer: The Obtuse Bard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Homer viewed the world influenced by the ideas of those who surrounded him as a child in Cambridge, Massachusetts, especially the ideas of painter/poet Washington Allston, Allston's brother-in-law Richard Henry Dana Sr.
		Homer's use of Allston's device can be seen throughout his works, beginning with his earliest childhood drawings.
		Winslow Homer grew up in the then small town of Cambridge Massachusetts surrounded by Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana Sr., Benjamin Welles, William Ellery Channing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Louis Agassiz and their views.
	obtusebard.org /homer (1309 words)

	Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Winslow Homer was trained as a lithographer in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts.
		Winslow Homer, A Swell of the Ocean, 1883
		Winslow Homer, Flirting on the Seashore and on the Meadow, 1874
	wwar.com /masters/h/homer-winslow.html (1416 words)

	Winslow Homer: The Obtuse Bard
		Homer viewed the world influenced by the ideas of those who surrounded him as a child in Cambridge, Massachusetts, especially the ideas of painter/poet Washington Allston, Allston's brother-in-law Richard Henry Dana Sr.
		Homer's use of Allston's device can be seen throughout his works, beginning with his earliest childhood drawings.
		Winslow Homer grew up in the then small town of Cambridge Massachusetts surrounded by Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana Sr., Benjamin Welles, William Ellery Channing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Louis Agassiz and their views.
	www.obtusebard.org /homer (1359 words)

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