Every Day a Painting for September 17, 2026

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1873–1876)

Winslow Homer

Oil on Canvas. American, Realist.

American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]

Homer developed a penchant for forceful realism early in his career. Following an apprenticeship in a Boston lithography shop, he supported himself as a freelance illustrator, creating a wide variety…

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