Winslow Homer and Homer family papers from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Winslow Homer and Homer family papers from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

1846-1954

Biographical documents; correspondence; notebooks; artworks; scrapbooks; printed material; and photographs; ca. 600 items, total.

2 microfilm reels

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SNAC Resource ID: 8176743

Archives of American Art

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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...