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Classified
as an American naturalist painter, Winslow was
a self-taught artist who became most famous
for his views of the American landscape and
most noteably his seascapes off of the Maine
coastline where he lived during the latter part
of his life. Homer was born on February 24,
1836. As a young man, he received his start
as an illustrator of magazines.
He became a regular contributor of engraving
drawings to Harper's Weekly, one of the nation's
most popular magazines of the time. After spending
a year in Paris in 1856, he returned to the
U.S. with a better understanding of the of light
in impressionism although he was not really
influenced by French art. In the early 1860's,
Homer made several trips to the front lines
of some Civil War battles in Virginia. It was
from sketches he made there that he created
his first important oil work, Prisoners from
the Front.
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