Winslow Homer

Here is a full-scale portrait of a man who became one of America's foremost painters--one who chose to walk alone in his search for truth in artistic expression. Whether in his native New england or the tropical isles of the Bahamas, his singleness of purpose asserted itself in a life that sacrificed the fulfillment of marriage for the goal he had set for himself...from his boyhood days in a Boston lithographer's shop to his mature achievement as a realistic painter, traces in detail his growth as an illustrator, including his Civil War experiences, and his gradual evolution in the media of water color and oil to his emergence as the outstanding artist of his era..."--inside flap.