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To: Lilly
Here's some more Homer:

"The Fog Warning". One of the men Kipling wrote about in "Captains Courageous", about the same time period.

"Life Line".

"The Gulf Stream" - probably Homer's most well-known painting.

He had an amazing range. He could paint homely New England scenes, wild seascapes, intimate portraits. His Civil War work is wonderful. To-wit, the following little capsule summary of the war "Prisoners from the Front". He nails the characters of the men in this painting perfectly, and honestly - even though he was a New Englander himself, he knocks the prissy REMF Union officer off in one.


103 posted on 10/21/2002 6:21:22 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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To: Lilly
Oh. . . I almost forgot. Homer also did outrageously wonderful watercolors -- of the sea, and of the Adirondack wilds. Watercolor is incredibly difficult to "get right" - and there are no second chances. Isn't this beautiful?

And in a completely different mood, with equal if not greater skill:

Every time I look at his work again I am in awe.

104 posted on 10/21/2002 6:32:25 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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