Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...
Probably one of the most bizarre beginnings of a varsity career was turned in by Garibaldi, a sophomore. A relief hurler in the Lynchburg contest, Garibaldi gave up a triple and a homer to the first two batters he faced. Then he struck out 10 men in four innings. (Yarbro was credited with...
...article "Artist-Journalists of the Civil War," I am surprised you made no mention of one of America's better-known artists, who as a young man served as an artist-reporter for Harper's Weekly. His name? Winslow Homer...
...Homer was indeed one of the Special Artists of the Civil War (with Harper's Weekly] ; for a sample of his work, see cut. However, he did only a few on-the-scene drawings. They were better as art than as reporting...
...Already, the ancient belief that man's stature exceeded four feet at some point in history," the philosopher told his amazed listeners, "has stimulated important research in the physicology of growth and shrinkage." Another intriguing question which must be studied, according Homer, is whether, during the brightly over-mined crust stage, man had any sort of optic organ...