The unrivaled Boston-born master Winslow Homer produced landscape, genre, and sea paintings of such quality and intelligent composition that he is seen as a monumental figure in 19th-century American art. Homer was one of the first to portray African-American laborers with the same tender sympathy as the French Romantics depicted the toiling peasants of their country.
The Cotton Pickers, c.1876, Oil on CanvasWinslow Homer American (1836 - 1910) |
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The unrivaled Boston-born master Winslow Homer produced landscape, genre, and sea paintings of such quality and intelligent composition that he is seen as a monumental figure in 19th-century American art. Homer was one of the first to portray African-American laborers with the same tender sympathy as the French Romantics depicted the toiling peasants of their country. |
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