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| Winslow Homer |
| 1836-1910 |
| American Artist |
| Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His artistic education consisted chiefly of his apprenticeship to the Boston commercial lithographer John H. Bufford and a few lessons in painting from Frederic Rondel. Following his apprenticeship, Homer worked as a free-lance illustrator for such magazines as Harper's Weekly. In 1859, he moved to New York City, where he began career as a painter. He visited the front during the Civil War and his first important paintings were of Civil War subjects. At Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1873, he began to paint in watercolor. He traveled widely in the 1870s in New York State, to Virginia, and Massachusetts, and in 1881 he began a two-year stay in England, living in Cullercoats, near Newcastle. Returning to America in 1883, he settled at Prout's Neck, Maine, where he would live for the rest of his life. He continued to travel widely, to the Adirondacks, Canada, Bermuda, Florida, and the Caribbean, painting in all those places which much of his later fame would be based. |
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