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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080627
Author:Sebastian Smee

Art Review

Winslow Homer: American Scenes

At: Museum of Fine Arts, through Dec. 7. 617-267-9300, mfa.org

Sentimental, anecdotal, and occasionally trite: On all three counts, Winslow Homer was guilty. And yet he was the greatest American artist of the 19th century - and not only because his imagery was the most "American." (By that criterion, Norman Rockwell would be remembered as the greatest American artist of the 20th century, and he is not.)

Homer delights instead by consistently transcending his limitations. His work was modern in some ways, backward-looking in others; scholars have argued ...

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