Winslow Homer’s early masterpiece captured a new ... ominously charged paintings I know. Homer painted “Sharpshooter” after spending two months in the spring of 1862 at Yorktown, Va., ...

How do you re-create the inner life of an artist who did not talk about art? Sharpshooter (1863) Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Sharpshooter, 1863. Oil on canvas. 12 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.

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 ...

The art of the famously reticent New England painter Winslow Homer (1836-1910) has often been studied through the lens of American history and criticism. Famed for his thunderous seascapes and ...

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 ...

“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 ...

These words by Winslow Homer in a letter to his brother Charles impressed me; they were written in 1895 on the eve of his 59th birthday and they’re part of a show of Homer’s work at the Metropolitan ...

Two Winslow Homer paintings that were recently appraised on Antiques Roadshow have been auctioned by Christie's during its 19th century American Art and Western Painting sales on January 23.

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 ...