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Winslow Homer
By Cikovsky, Nicolai & Kelly, Franklin & Homer, Winslow
- ISBN
- 978-0-30006-555-8
- Publisher
- Washington : National Gallery of Art ; c1995.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 1996
The 19th-century realist Winslow Homer first gained wide renown with his Civil War battlefield illustrations in Harper's Weekly. A year spent in Paris after the war led to a greater acuity of vision, and by the mid-1870s he was one of the leading progenitors of naturalism and the most celebrated American painter of his day. Known for his watercolors, which have all the intensity and ardor of the most accomplished oil paintings, the solid outlines and luminosity of his surfaces show little i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
