Winslow Homer: American Passage by William R. Cross Christmas and Epiphany Pub Date: September 15

Pub Date: September 15

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Winslow Homer: American Passage by William R. Cross Christmas and Epiphany Pub Date: September 15The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and proseyet whose own story has remained largely untold. In 1860, at the age of twenty four, Winslow Homer (18361910) sold Harpers Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a