Winslow Homer
1836 - 1910

Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where, at the
age of nineteen, he was apprenticed to J.H. Bufford’s lithographic
firm. The quality of his work was superior, but he found it to be
tedious and stifling and eventually, he left the shop to become a
freelance illustrator. Homer contributed engraved illustrations
regularly to “Harper’s Weekly”, one of the most popular national
magazines of the time. He spent a year in Paris studying light in
Impressionism, but he was not particularly influenced by French
art. During the early 1960s, he made several trips to the front
lines of Civil War battles in Virginia and used the sketches from
those trips to create some of his most important works. His subjects
during the mid-point of his career were rural farms scenes from
the Northeastern United States, fashionable resort scenes, children
at play and well dressed women. Inspired by two years that he spent
in a fishing village in England, he began producing seascapes, for
which he is best known.

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