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Article: Painting nature on the wing.(Winslow Homer)(Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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"The Sun, will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks," wrote Winslow Homer to his brother Charles, putting into words what drove his art (1). All his life, the artist "noticed"--not just the rising and setting sun from his home near the ocean at Prouts Neck, Maine, but everything around him: people; scenery of his hunting and fishing trips; wildlife, which he painted with passion; objects and details others would never imagine the subject of art; and the effect, movement, and inner life of these. As he gave drawing instructions to his friend and fellow artist James Edward Kelly (1855-1933), Homer once said, "You should practice drawing old shoes and getting ...