Abstract
WINSLOW HOMER IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN painter of nineteenth century. These-the first words to greet viewers of Winslow Homer (1836-1910) retrospective exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston-vividly telegraphed agenda of show's organizers and sponsors, and galleries through which large crowds of visitors slowly shuffled were dedicated to driving home truth of this ambitious claim. What did it mean to be the greatest American painter? The plaque at entrance elaborated on this a bit. Homer's work, it said, was highly individual both in subject matter and style. His art never ceased to grow from distinctive images of Civil War that marked his first attempts to paint in oils, to powerful, heroic seascapes of his later years. Thus primed, viewers retraced Homer's path to greatness through a
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