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Museum plans to buy artist's home ; Winslow Homer's 19th-century cottage in Prouts Neck is likely to be sold to the Portland Museum of Art, but access will be restricted.

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From: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Date: 20040930
Author:BOB KEYES Staff Writer

BOB KEYES Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
09-30-2004
Museum plans to buy artist's home ; Winslow Homer's 19th-century cottage in Prouts Neck is likely to be sold to the Portland Museum of Art, but access will be restricted.
Byline: BOB KEYES Staff Writer
Edition: Final
Section: FRONT
Memo: PORTLAND CONNECTON WINSLOW HOMER, who was born in Boston in 1836, had a deep connection to the Portland Museum of Art. He first exhibited at the Portland Society of Art - later to become the Portland Museum of Art - in 1893, showing his painting "Signal of Distress." IN 1976, the museum received as ...

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