Quick Facts

• NAME: Winslow Homer
• OCCUPATION: Painter
• BIRTH DATE: February 24, 1836
• DEATH DATE: September 29, 1910
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
• PLACE OF DEATH: Prouts Neck, Maine

Best Known For

Winslow Homer was a painter whose works, particularly those on marine subjects, are among the most powerful of late 19th-century American art.