Winslow Homer

"An extended essay that examines the life, work, and sensibilities of nineteenth-century American painter Winslow Homer, with over one hundred color and black-and-white illustrations." --

An anonymous retelling in prose of the traditional nursery rhyme in which the curiosity of the three little mice leads them to a sad end.

"Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. In particular, The Gulf Stream (1899),...