Autograph Letter to Louis Prang, Discussing lithograph of "The Eastern Shore"
Winslow Homer
October 8, 1895
Medium
Pen and ink
Dimensions
sheet: 9 x 5 3/8 in. (22.8 x 13.6 cm)
Classification
Miscellaneous
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.93.3
Tags
Correspondence
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...