Winslow homer biography and paintings the woodcutter

Born in 1836, Winslow Homer is regarded by many as one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century.

Winslow homer biography and paintings the woodcutter

He was born and raised in the Cambridge area, Boston, MA, and the first work he did in the field of art, was working as a print maker, in Boston, as well as in New York, which he eventually made his home in 1859.

Early on in his career, in the Spring of 1861, he worked in oil paintings.

The same year he was sent to work in Virginia, where he worked as the front, editor and design chief, for Harper's Weekly. Some of the earliest paintings that he created, from the Civil War, date back to 1863, and are quite similar to the prints that he did, while working in this position with the magazine.

As the war came to a close, and the understanding of what the war meant, a number of his portraits which depicted the war, including Prisoners from the Front and Veteran in a New Field, were reflective of the changes and ideas that Americans had ab