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Homer (WINSLOW an American artist)

WINSLOW, an American artist; born in 1836, at Boston, Mass.

At the age of twenty-one he began making drawings for "Harper's Weekly," and first gained prominence by his Civil War drawings: "Rations" (1863); "Prisoners from the Front" (1865) and "The Bright Side" (1865). These received favorable notice from European expositions and encouraged Homer to continue his work, which he did, confining himself for a time to pictures from New England life. His most celebrated work has been his pictures of the life at sea in which he has excelled all other American artists. Among his best works are "Lost on the Grand Banks," "Undertow," "Eight Bells," "The Maine Coast." He died in 1910.