who was winslow homer
• Started painting about 150 years ago • American, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1836 • **show photograph if you can find one Photo of Winslow Homer from www.nga.gov • Didn’t have much formal education in art, but was good at drawing from an early age • Began working as an illustrator for magazines, which means that he made drawings and prints that went along with articles in magazines. ***show examples, such as: • Homer’s Paintings • Homer took a few art classes, but he mostly taught himself how to paint. • During the American Civil War, the magazine he was doing work for sent him to record images of the war. He made many illustrations about the war for the magazine, but also used his drawings to produce some of his first oil paintings. ***show examples, such as: Prisoners from the Front (1866) Home Sweet Home (1863) • After the war, he came home and made paintings of mostly women and children out in the country, which may have been a way of healing himself after seeing all the ter
