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(b Boston, MA, 24 Feb 1836; d Prout’s Neck, ME,
29 Sept 1910). American painter, illustrator and
etcher. He was one of the two most admired
American late 19th-century artists (the other
being Thomas Eakins) and is considered to be
the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the
USA and its greatest watercolourist. Nominally
a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on
Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an
artist of power and individuality whose images
are metaphors for the relationship of Man and
Nature. A careful observer of visual reality, he
was at the same time alive to the purely
physical properties of pigment and colour, of
line and form, and of the patterns they create.
His work is characterized by bold, fluid
brushwork, strong draughtsmanship and
composition, and particularly by a lack of
sentimentality.
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