Today, the National Gallery of Art announces details of its “Across the Nation” partnership program bringing key works of art from its permanent collection to regional museums across the United States ...

Yet, from the late 1870s on, Winslow Homer seemed to change in a fundamental way. Some scholars speculate that there was a failed romance that caused his withdrawal from society. In any case ...

American artist Winslow Homer painted A Visit from the Old Mistress in 1876. In it he portrays the tension that existed between white plantation owners and their former slaves following emancipation.

So much that there is little time left to share with a wife," Beam wrote in Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck (1966). The truth, it seems, remains as stubbornly elusive as the artist himself.