“I have had no master, and never shall have any.”
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Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
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culture · American landscape painter (1836–1910) · painter · photographer · printmaker · illustrator · also Winslow Homer, w. homer, homer w., W.m Homer, Wm. Homer, Wm. (unidentified) Homer
Born 24 February 1836 · Died 29 September 1910 · Q344838
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2010· 1 entry
The Postal Service issued a 44-cent commemorative stamp featuring Homer's Boys in a Pasture at the APS Stamp Show in Richmond, Virginia
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2008· 1 entry
And was formally attributed to Homer on BBC's television series Fake or Fortune
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1910· 2 entries
Died 1910-09-29.
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At the age of 74 in his Prouts Neck studio and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1893· 1 entry
Homer painted one of his most famous "Darwinian" works, The Fox Hunt, which depicts a flock of starving crows descending on a fox slowed by deep snow
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1883· 1 entry
Homer moved to Prouts Neck, Maine (in Scarborough), and lived at his family's estate in the remodeled carriage house seventy-five feet from the ocean
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1878· 1 entry
Homer spent a particularly productive year as the guest of industrialist Lawson Valentine at his property in the Adirondack Mountains, Houghton Farm
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1877· 1 entry
Homer exhibited for the first time at the Boston Art Club with the oil painting, An Afternoon Sun, (owned by the Artist)
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1875· 1 entry
Homer quit working as a commercial illustrator and vowed to survive on his paintings and watercolors alone
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1873· 1 entry
During a summer stay in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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1859· 2 entries
Opened a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, the artistic and publishing capital of the United States
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Homer lived in Belmont, Massachusetts, with his family
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1836· 2 entries
Born 1836-02-24.
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The second of three sons of Charles Savage Homer and Henrietta Maria Benson Homer, both from long lines of New Englanders
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