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Man and nature: The art of Winslow Homer

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From: USA Today
Date: 19960101
Author:Brock, Charles

WINSLOW HOMER first received critical recognition for his insightful portrayal of the Civil War. Nationally acclaimed an illustrator and painter by age of 30, he began to work regularly in watercolor as well as oil in the early 1870s, creating classic images of American life. Later in his career, he rendered the coast of Maine, at Prout's Neck, in a series of dramatic seascapes that profoundly influenced such early-20th-century American artists as George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Homer belongs to the generation of modernists that includes James McNeill Whistler and the French masters Edouard ...

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