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Fortune smiles, and museum hits a Homer ; A chance encounter leads to an acquisition for the ages for the Portland Museum of Art - Winslow Homer's studio.

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From: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Date: 20041003
Author:Bob Keyes Staff Writer

Bob Keyes Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
10-03-2004
Fortune smiles, and museum hits a Homer ; A chance encounter leads to an acquisition for the ages for the Portland Museum of Art - Winslow Homer's studio.
Byline: Bob Keyes Staff Writer
Edition: FINAL
Section: Audience

One can only imagine the sort of solitude that compels a genius to write on the interior wall of his home.

"What a friend chance can be when it chooses," scrawled the painter Winslow Homer on the wall of his wood-frame Prouts Neck cottage, where he spent his final 27 years.
We'll never know what inspired Homer to ...

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