Painted and exhibited in 1866, this Homer was loudly hailed as the finest painting produced by the Civil War, is almost unknown today outside the Metropolitan Museum. Winslow Homer was born in ...

Two Winslow Homer paintings ... life in the wake of the Civil War. In terms of calculating the estimate, Christie's took into consideration the fact that the two paintings have been in the same ...

A Sewanee woman and her daughter found themselves sitting on their hands at a Christie's auction in New York City in January, trying not to accidentally bid while they were gawking at the going rate ...

click image for close-up At the end of the Civil War, black and white Southerners confronted the reconstructions of their society. American artist Winslow Homer ... women in the painting stand ...