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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910208
Author:Hank Burchard

NOBODY DISLIKES the paintings of Winslow Homer because there's nothing to dislike about them; they're as warm and comforting as a campfire. But in the breast of this solid Victorian burgher there burned a clear and steady flame whose light suffuses a spare but vivid exhibition at the National Museum of American Art.

The 28 works include 15 oils that are the cream of Homer's "late marines," produced in the 1890s at Prout's Neck, Maine, a summer resort where his close-knit family maintained a compound. Here Homer (1836-1910) spent the closing decades of his life painting the complex, ...

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