Winslow Homer

American Realist who began as a Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly and ended as the great painter of the North Atlantic coast. After a decade producing scenes of post-war childhood and Reconstruction, Homer moved to Prouts Neck, Maine, in 1883 and turned his attention to the sea — fishermen, hurricanes, lone figures against the surf. His watercolors, painted on field trips to the Bahamas, Florida and the Adirondacks, are still considered the high-water mark of the medium in American art.