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Girl on a Swing, Weaving Dream

Girl on a Swing is a watercolor painted by Winslow Homer in 1879, who was born in Boston and is considered to be the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Maybe because his mother had a gift in watercolorist, his art talent was on display early but did not receive formal training. In Winslow Homer paintings, Homer prefers to show the relationship between human beings and nature with strong, clear images matched the scenery.

There was one figure, a tree and maybe small grassland in the picture. The main character was a girl on a pink dress, whose hair was brown and long enough to touch the ground that looks like a small branch from the tree. The rope was tied tightly to one of the thick branch as to be a simple swing which might be made of the girl’s family or herself. She was on the swing, grasping the rope by her hands while a breeze blowing her dress. She was looking ahead in a peaceful smile. This situation was so familiar that remind me of childhood, when innocent children always like to hang out and play on a swing. It has

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Boys in a Pasture, Missing their Past

Winslow Homer, an American landscape painter and printmaker, was known as the foremost and preeminent painter in the history of American art. He was largely self-taught painter, who began his career as an apprentice with a Boston lithographer. Homer’s gift in oil paintings made his mother try to send him to Europe for further study, but instead Harper’s, the magazine he illustrated for, sent him to the front lines of the American Civil War, where he made paintings under battle scenes and camp life. After war, he turned his attention to reflect nostalgia by using scenes of childhood and young women.

His Boys in a Pasture depicts two boys having rest in a pasture, tranquil and harmonious which was a landmark in American countryside. Various grass flourish in the broad and endless land. Few greenish trees stood far away from the boys. The two boys with their brown and yellowish brown bonnet sat freely, facing the distance like missing their families and homes and reminiscent of their childhood.

Homer’s Boys in a Pasture was showed as t

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In Autumn Woods, c. 1877

11 x 7.5 inches | watercolor on paper

Winslow Homer was born on February 24, 1836 in Boston, MA to a middle-class family. No record of the artist’s formal training exists. However, it has been noted that his mother, Henrietta Benson Homer, was an amateur watercolorist of unusual talent. At the age of 19, Homer worked as an apprentice under Boston lithographer John H. Bufford.

After three years as an apprentice, Homer opened a studio in Boston, where he began his career as a freelance illustrator. Over the next twenty years, he worked as a correspondent for some of the periods most popular illustrated weakly journals, including Ballou’s Pictorial in Boston, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper’s Weekly in New York. He quickly became the most celebrated illustrator in America and covered the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Harper’s Weekly sent the artist to the front lines, where he studied the mundane camp life of the war fi