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Winslow Homer, The Obtuse Bard
The Personal Illusions of Winslow Homer

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  1. Part One - Introduction and Background
    1 Photo Of The Full Moon
    2 The Big Dipper And The Great Bear
    2b Pareidolia - Dr. Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
    3 Kennedy On Mars
    4 Andrea Mantegna - Triumph Of The Virtues 1502 (Detail)
    5 Elihu Vedder—Luna Harper Cover 1882
    6 Allston Self Portrait
    7 Washington Allston - Rising Of A Thunderstorm At Sea 1804
    8 Benjamin Welles Remarker 1806
    10 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Portrait 1814
    11 Coleridge Quote - Allston Knows What Nature Is
    12 William Ellery Channing - Similar View
    13 William Cullen Bryant - Similar View
    14 Durand's Kindred Spirits
    15 Kindred Spirits - Detail
    16 Washington Irving - Castles In The Clouds
    17 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Great Stone Face
    18 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
    20 George Berkeley's Influence
    21 Whitehall And Berkeley's Rock
    22 William And Henry James
    23 John La Farge
    24 La Farge Study At Berkeley's Rocks(Aka Hanging Rock) C 1883
    25 Berkeley Wrote About Vision At This Rock
    26 Berkeley Wrote About Vision At This Rock Continued
    27 Two Views Of Hanging Rock
    28a La Farge - Paradise Valley
    28b La Farge - The Three Wise Men
    29 John La Farge - Japan, Cave Man, And Winslow Homer
    32b Visions - A Book By Edward H. Clarke, M.D. 1880

  2. Part Two - Visual Example in Winslow Homer's works
    34 Boat Builders 1873 Indianapolis Art Museum
    39 War Songs Harpers
    44 High Cliff – Coast of Maine 1894 National Gallery of Art Washington DC
    62 Rocky Coast Wadsworth Athenaeum Hartford
    79 Undertow 1886
    84 Lost on the Grand Banks 1885
    93 Eight Bells Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy
    97 A Fair Wind – Breezing Up 1875
    101 West Wind
    103 Driftwood Mother Father
    104 On A Lee Shore MF
    105 The Fog Warning – Man by oar
    106 An October Day 1889
    108 All’s Well 1896
    110 Cotton Pickers 1876 Los Angeles
    114 The Houses of Parliament
    115 A Basket of Claims
    116 Artist's Studio In An Afternoon Fog
    117 Eight Bells
    118 Snap The Whip 1872
    119 On the Battenkill 1869
    120 Adolescence 1846
    125 The Gulf Stream 1899
    128 Henrietta Homer Two Blackberries on a Blackberry Cane
    129 Farm Scene 1847
    130 Storm Coming
    131 Driftwood 1910 MFA Boston

  3. Part Three - Conclusion
    140 Conclusion



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