Institutional file, Exhibitions. Winslow Homer: illustrating America.

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Institutional file, Exhibitions. Winslow Homer: illustrating America.

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Brooklyn Museum of Art. Dept. of Painting and Sculpture.

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Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910

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Winslow Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836. He was raised in Cambridge, where he developed a love of art and the outdoors. At the age of 19 he began his career as an illustrator, apprenticing at the J.H. Bufford lithographic firm in Boston. He then decided to become a freelance illustrator. In 1859 Homer moved to New York to work for Harper's Weekly, serving as artist-correspondent for the magazine during the Civil War. After taking some art classes at the National Academy of Desig...