December Issue 2000
Columbia Museum Of Art Receives Winslow Homer Works
David Hendrick of Massachusetts has donated an extensive collection of wood engravings by American artist Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) to the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC. These gifts, designated as Fiftieth Anniversary Acquisitions, include more than one hundred prints by Homer, plus additional works by Albert Bierstadt, Elihu Vedder, and others. Opening on Dec. 2 and running through Mar. 4, 2001, Winslow Homer: The Civil War Years will be on view in Focus Gallery 1 and Winslow Homer: The Gloucester Years will be on view in Focus Gallery 3.
Homer's greatest output occurred during the Civil War when he covered the action on the front lines and the every day tedium of camp life. These sketches were faithfully engraved in New York at Harpers Weekly. The Gloucester images were produced in 1873 and 1874, and they depict the quiet and peaceful years of the residences of New England and particularly Massachusetts.
Between 1857 and 1875, Homer produced more than 280 wood engravings for major regional and national newspapers. He began working with "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion", and later moved on to other major papers of the day including Harpers Bazaar; Harpers Weekly; Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art; Scribner's Monthly, Hearth and Home; Our Young Folks and Every Saturday.
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