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Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude

WINSLOW HOMER: SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE profiles the life and work of one of the greatest American artists of his time (1836-1910). Two one-hour programs chronicle Winslow Homer's evolution from wood-engraver to Harper's Weekly illustrator to an innovative watercolorist best known for his evocative oil paintings. Noted artists and scholars describe a man who lived in the midst of a lively and cosmopolitan New York City art scene, but gradually withdrew from public life, earning him the reputation as the great recluse of American art. The documentary features more than 180 of the artist's paintings, watercolors, etchings and illustrations and extensive on-location footage of places immortalized in some of Homer's most famous works.

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After 1880, Winslow Homer's painting evolved in a different way. During the final decades of his life he created a series of masterpieces that led to his reputation as the most profound visual poet of the sea, and of elemental themes of nature in general. He was the master of more than one medium: indeed, his innovative work in watercolor is - for many - an even greater achievement than the oil paintings for which he is so well known.

Rating: TVPG
Episode Number: #102
Length: 56 minutes, 46 seconds.

Closed Captioned STEREO English, Letterbox, DVS

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Winslow Homer is recognized as perhaps the greatest American painter of his time. His work as both an illustrator for Harper's Weekly and as a painter reveals an enormous amount about American life from before the outbreak of the Civil War, through the War itself and Post -War America up to 1880.

Rating: TVPG
Episode Number: #101
Length: 56 minutes, 46 seconds.

Closed Captioned STEREO English, Letterbox, DVS

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