Introduction - Chapter 1: Early Experiences - Chapter 2: The American Civil War - Chapter 3: Observations of Modern Life - Chapter 4: Rural America - Chapter 5: A Turn to the Cosmopolitan - Chapter 6: England: Shedding the Past - Chapter 7: Homer's Refuge in Maine - Chapter 8 A Ravenous Sea - Chapter 9: A Man's World in the North Woods - Chapter 10: A Primordial World - Chapter 11: Heaven and Hell in the Tropics - Chapter 12: The Final Years - Conclusion - Chronology - Bibliography
Randall C. Griffin, Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Professor Griffin is an authority on Homer, with extensive research and teaching experience of the subject, and he is the author of the recently published scholarly volume Homer, Eakins and Anshultz: the Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age (Penn. State Press) which has received very favourable reviews. Author's Residence: Dallas, Texas, USA.
"Professor Randall C. Griffin of Southern Methodist University has provided a fresh insight into a man whose complex life and art have been examined and dissected more than any other American artist - congratulations to the Phaidon Press for excellent production and reproduction values." (The Falmouth Enterprise, October 6, 2006) "This is recommended for all libraries for holdings in American art history." (Library Journal, November 1, 2006) '[an] excellent overview - all the paintings that secured [Homer's] place in the very top flight of 19th C. American artists are excellently reproduced, together with many of his boating and 'outdoors' watercolours, which some fans prefer even to the oils for their freshness and immediacy.' Galleries, December 2006
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