William Cross talked about his biography of painter Winslow Homer, who was capturing the American experience as the Civil War erupted in 1861 and who continued working through Reconstruction, the ...

APPRAISER: Winslow Homer started working in watercolor in about 1873 in Gloucester. These works date from slightly later, about 1878. The medium of the one closest to you is pure watercolor.

Winslow Homer’s painting “Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)” showing a catboat sailing on Gloucester Harbor with “Gloucester” on the stern is one of the 19th century American painter’s most famous ...