Winslow Homer and the critics in the 1870s.(painter)(Brief Article)

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: CONRADS, MARGARET C. | Copyright information

When Winslow Homer exhibited Prisoners from the Front (Pl. II) at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866, the thirty-year-old Boston native received the highest praise of any artist in the exhibition. [1] Such success was quite extraordinary, for even though he had an established reputation as an illustrator, Homer had only been painting seriously for about five years. The Civil War canvas was applauded because, as the artist and critic Eugene Benson (1837-1908) no...

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