1. American Landscape Painter
Winslow Homer
American Landscape Painter

2. Winslow Homer  (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. 
Born in Boston, Massachusetts
Loved art from an early age
After high school stated working as a magazine illustrator
When he was 23 he moved to New York and started taking painting classes. He also opened his own art studio.
When the Civil War began he was sent to front lines to sketch battle scenes and camp life, the quiet moments as well as the chaotic ones.
After the war Homer went to Paris to study landscape painting for a year. He then went to England , where he lived in a coastal town for two years and began painting the ocean. When he returned to America, he moved to a fishing town in Maine and continued to paint seascapes.
Later in life he also become interested in painting wildlife and sport fishing.

3. Magazine Illustrations

4. Thanksgiving Dinner in the Army, After Dinner, The Wish Bone
Civil War Sketches
The War for the Union, 1862
Thanksgiving Dinner in the Army, After Dinner, The Wish Bone

5. “Snap the whip” (1872)

6. The Fog Warning

7. Eight Bells
Crab Fishing

8. The Herring Net

9. Breezing Up

10. Shooting The Rapids (1910, unfinished)