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Winslow Homer: American Illustrator

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From: USA Today
Date: 20060801
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Winslow Homer: American Illustrator

Although he is counted high on the list of preeminent painters in the U.S. during the last half of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) spent the first eight years of his professional career, beginning at age 19, working as a graphic artist. His first commissions were for drawings to be transformed into illustrations for the popular magazines that were emerging during this period.

Homer's first illustration appeared on June 13, 1857, in Ballou's Pictorial, a Boston periodical that provided a visual record of the picturesque sites and ...

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