Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new ...

as well as the artist's reputation. "Winslow Homer is well established as one of the leading artists of the 19th century and in art history, and he's so well known, particularly for his skill as a ...

where the owner of the Winslow Homer Watercolors explained that the art had been in her family for 'probably 150 years' without realizing the significance of the artist. She explained to appraiser ...

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.