Homer, Winslow

Japanese: ホーマー(英語表記)Homer, Winslow
Homer, Winslow
Born: February 24, 1836 in Boston
Died: September 29, 1910. American painter from Bruce Neck. In 1859, he attended night classes at the Brooklyn Drawing School in New York, where he studied oil painting under French painter F. Rondelle. During the Civil War, he created illustrations for Harper's Weekly and oil paintings on the theme of war. He visited France in 1866 and 1867, and stayed in England from 1881 to 1882. He settled on the coast of Maine in 1883, and visited Florida and the West Indies, where he painted watercolors. His major works include Hunters and Dogs (1891, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Storm in the Straits (1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), among others.

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Japanese:
[生]1836.2.24. ボストン
[没]1910.9.29. ブルーツネック
アメリカの画家。 1859年ニューヨーク,ブルックリンのデッサン学校の夜学に学び,油絵をフランスの画家 F.ロンデルに師事。南北戦争中は『ハーパーズー・ウィークリー』誌の挿絵や戦争をテーマとした油絵を描いた。 66,67年にフランスを訪れ,81~82年イギリスに滞在。 83年からメーン州の海岸に定住し,フロリダや西インド諸島を訪れて水彩画を描いた。主要作品は『狩人たちと犬』 (1891,フィラデルフィア美術館) ,『海峡の嵐』 (99,ニューヨーク,メトロポリタン美術館) ほか。

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