Classified
as an American naturalist painter, Winslow was a self-taught
artist who became most famous for his views of the American
landscape and most noteably his seascapes off of the Maine
coastline where he lived during the latter part of his
life. Homer was born on February 24, 1836.
As a young man, he received his start as an illustrator
of magazines. He became a regular contributor of engraving
drawings to Harper's Weekly, one of the nation's most
popular magazines of the time. After spending a year in
Paris in 1856, he returned to the U.S. with a better understanding
of the of light in impressionism although he was not really
influenced by French art. In the early 1860's, Homer made
several trips to the front lines of some Civil War battles
in Virginia. It was from sketches he made there that he
created his first important oil work, Prisoners from the
Front.
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