Winslow Homer was born in Boston in 1836 ... One of his first paintings, "Sharpshooter," was originally an etching that he turned into a painting. Before he settled in Maine, Homer lived and ...

Winslow Homer painted “Sharpshooter” in 1863. The painting is in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Wikimedia Commons Charles Fairbanks never forgot the moment when word of ...

“Sharpshooter,” by reliable account his ... The paper trail for Homer’s trips to the front ends here. A new biography, “Winslow Homer: American Passage,” by William R.

The frugal Winslow Homer was at his most parsimonious with words—especially when asked to reveal his aesthetic ideas or his methods of working. "I think it would probably kill me to have such a ...

Homer compared the sharpshooter's job as being "as near murder ... author of the comprehensive biography, Winslow Homer: American Passage. "Throughout his life, Homer had a deep heart for ...

That painter is Wilmslow Homer, and if you’ve never heard of ... while the figure of a Sharpshooter, 1863, in a tree, his attention focused on his target, the barrel balanced on a branch ...

Against this forbidding backdrop, American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) introduces us to a fox treading through the snowy foreground. A red fox, abundant in Maine. Homer’s is accurately ...