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HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)
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See also:HOMER, See also:WINSLOW (1836-191o) , See also:American painter, was See also:born in See also:Boston, U.S.A., on the 24th of See also:February 1836. At the See also:age of nineteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer. Two years later he opened a studio in Boston, and devoted much of his See also:time to making drawings for See also:wood-engravers. In 1859 he re-moved to New See also:York, where he studied in the See also:night-school of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design. During the American See also:Civil See also:War he was with the troops at the front, and contributed sketches to Harper's Weekly. The war also furnished him with the subjects for the first two pictures which he exhibited (1863), one of which was " See also:Home, Sweet Home." His " Prisoners from the Front "—perhaps his most generally popular picture—was exhibited in New York in 1865, and also in See also:Paris in 1867, where he was spending the See also:year in study. Among his other paintings in oil are " Snap the See also:Whip " (which was exhibited at the See also:Philadelphia Centennial See also:Exhibition of 1876, and, in See also:company with " The See also:Country Schoolroom," at the Paris See also:Salon the following year), " Eating See also:Water-See also:melon," " The See also:Cotton Pickers," " Visit from the Old See also:Mistress. See also:Sunday See also:Morning," " The See also:Life-See also:Line " and " The Coming of the See also:Gale." His See also:genius, however, has perhaps shown better in his See also:works in water-See also:colour, among which are his marine studies painted at See also:Gloucester, See also:Mass., and his " Inside the See also:Bar," The See also:Voice from the Cliffs " (pictures of See also:English fisherwomen), See also:Tynemouth," " Wrecking of a See also:Vessel " and " Lost on theGrand See also:Banks." His See also:work, which principally consists of genre pictures, is characterized by strength, rugged directness and unmistakable freshness and originality, rather than by technical excellence, See also:grace of line or beauty of colour. He was little affected by See also:European influences. His types and scenes, apart from his few English pictures, are distinctly American—soldiers in See also:blue, New See also:England See also:children, negroes in the See also:land of cotton, Gloucester fishermen and stormy See also:Atlantic seas. Besides being a member of the Society of Painters in Water-color, New York. he was elected in 1864 an See also:associate and the following year a member of the National Academy of Design. End of Article: HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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