2021-10 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/16/2021
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born in Boston and raised in rural Cambridge, he began his career as a commercial printmaker, first in Boston and then in New York, where he settled in 1859. He briefly studied oil painting in the spring of 1861. In October of the same year, he was sent to the front in Virginia as an artist-correspondent for the new illustrated journal Harper's Weekly. A Group of SIX full page engraved images and ONE half page. They include, "The Advance Guard of the Grand Army ... Crossing the Potomac..", June 8, 1861; "The War-Making Havelocks for the Volunteers", front cover, June 29, 1861; "Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsnal..." front cover, July 20, 1861; "The Army of the Potomac - .. .Picket in the Woods", half page, June 7, 1862; "Winter-Quarters in Camp ...", January 24, 1863; "The Morning Walk - Young Ladies School ...", March 28, 1868; and "Under The Falls, Catskills Mountains", September 14, 1872.
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