. American painters of yesterday and today . WiNSLOw Homer: Haymaking Collection of Mr. Frederic Fairchild Sherrnan, New fork. EARLY OIL PAINTINGSBY WINSLOW HOMER HOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH in 1866wrote of Winslow Homers earlystudio in the old University buildingin New York, that it is remarkablefor nothing but its contracted di-mensions; it seems altogether toosmall for a man to have a large idea in. As a matterof fact, most of Homers ideas then, as later, cameto him elsewhere; in soldier camps, at Houghtonfarm, in the North Woods, Bermuda or , however, the cramped life of the city,
. American painters of yesterday and today . WiNSLOw Homer: Haymaking Collection of Mr. Frederic Fairchild Sherrnan, New fork. EARLY OIL PAINTINGSBY WINSLOW HOMER HOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH in 1866wrote of Winslow Homers earlystudio in the old University buildingin New York, that it is remarkablefor nothing but its contracted di-mensions; it seems altogether toosmall for a man to have a large idea in. As a matterof fact, most of Homers ideas then, as later, cameto him elsewhere; in soldier camps, at Houghtonfarm, in the North Woods, Bermuda or , however, the cramped life of the city,encompassed by walled streets and harassed by theunnatural noises of endless traffic, drove him to thedistant coast of Maine, where he found a congenialhome and his greatest inspiration in a supreme in-terpretation of the grandeur of the sea. His reputation as a marine painter has been suffi-ciently established by the able exposition of othercritics and needs no further emphasis, but I feel thatthere is something more of merit to be found in hisearly oil paintings than others have their technical def
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