Winslow Homer Book of Postcards

Winslow Homer (1836–1910) has justly been called America's greatest artist. Beginning with the Civil War and throughout his career he insightfully recorded the sweeping panorama of the nation's life. Homer's dynamic compositions and strong sense of design, color, and light imbued his subjects with a psychological truthfulness that was unprecedented in American art and introduced a new realism into what had been an overly sentimental tradition of genre painting. While quintessentially American, his work also paralleled such developments in European art as impressionism and embodied universal themes that transcended national concerns. The thirty works presented in this book of postcards are from the collection of the National Gallery of Art. - INDIVIDUAL ITEM RRP £8.99