Winslow Homer: Illustrating America - Hardcover

Kushner, Marilyn S.; Gallati, Barbara Dayer; Ferber, Linda S.

9780807614662: Winslow Homer: Illustrating America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807614661 ISBN 13: 9780807614662

Publisher: George Braziller, 2000

In addition to being acclaimed for his magnificent paintings and watercolors, Winslow Homer is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and prolific illustrators of the nineteenth century. This volume illuminates his illustrations--an often overlooked but magnificent body of work by America's most popular nineteenth-century artist. Working in an era when photography was not yet widely used as a reproductive medium, Homer was employed between 1857 and 1875 as an artist whose images were made into wood engravings that appeared in such popular journals as Harper's Weekly, Appletons' Journal, and Every Saturday. Homer's first steps toward his transformation into the artist of haunting emotional and formal vision he later became are visible in these illustrations. Winslow Homer: Illustrating America reproduces 79 of Homer's best printed illustrations--scenes of children, of the Civil War, the coastal resorts, the Adirondacks, and others. Essay authors Gallati and Kushner discuss these works within their art historical and social contexts.

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About the Author:

Marilyn S. Kushner is Department Head and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She also teaches at Rutgers University. Barbara D. Gallati is Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the author of the forthcoming William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes. Linda S. Ferber is Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is co-author, with Barbara D. Gallati, of Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement.

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