Winslow Homer: American Passage by Cross, William R.

Winslow Homer: American Passage

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an...
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Author: William R. Cross
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Language: English
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Winslow Homer: American Passage by Cross, William R.

Winslow Homer: American Passage

$79.28

Winslow Homer: American Passage

$79.28
Author: William R. Cross
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose--yet whose own story has remained largely untold.

In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) sold Harper's Weekly two dozen wood engravings. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring "the freedom of all mankind."

Homer, born into the Panic of 1837 and raised in the years before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal, timeless questions of purpose and meaning.

Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist's probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless spirit of invention transforming his world. In Winslow Homer: American Passage, William R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history.

Includes Color Images and Maps

Author: William R. Cross
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250863058

About the Author
William R. Cross is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums. He served as the curator of Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880, a nationally renowned 2019 exhibition on the formation of Winslow Homer as a marine painter. He is the chairman of the advisory board of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Cross and his wife, Ellen, the parents of two grown sons, live on Cape Ann, north of Boston, Massachusetts.

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