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...best-known paintings of Winslow Homer are those of the blistering Caribbean sun, of angry seas, and of the ruggedness of Maine, where he lived out the last years of his life as a virtual recluse. But in the 1870s, when he was still working and living in Manhattan, his chief inspiration came from summer visits to the countryside-upstate New York, for instance, to the tiny town of Mountainville, 60 miles up the Hudson from the city, where one of the mountains has the fierce-sounding name of Storm King. Last week a nostalgic show of the Mountainville paintings...
...rolling landscape west of the river is as peaceful and hospitable as it was when Homer painted it some 90 years ago. The three-year-old gallery, converted from a large mansion with princely gardens and a commanding view, has only the glimmerings of a collection of its own; but if it can put on more shows like this one, it should become a favorite attraction. This show was organized by Lloyd Goodrich, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the leading authority on Homer. The paintings are mostly in watercolor, a medium of which Homer...
...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
...left hand,* grips the bat in unorthodox fashion-with his hands split two inches apart, à la Ty Cobb. "When my bat meets the ball," he says, "that old pill really takes off." Except in Chavez Ravine. For some mysterious reason, Slugger Wagner has yet to hit a homer in his own home park...
...were in doubt of the outcome (and in fact, few were left in the chilly park) by the time that Gilmor contributed two more runs to the festivities in the fifth with his homer. Only the truly brave and faithful remained when sophomore Mike Patrick tripled in one run in the eighth and scored on Diehl's shot to deep second...