Down by the River
Master of All
Winslow Homer – Farmer With Pitchfork – 1899-1900
Ripe
Winslow Homer – For To Be A Farmers Boy – 1887
Ahhhhh…
Winslow Homer – Fresh Air – 1878
Breakfast
Winslow Homer – Fresh Eggs – 1874
Much To Do
Winslow Homer – Girl With Hay Rake – 1878
Day Trip
Winslow Homer – Gloucester Harbor – 1873
Primeval
Winslow Homer – In the Jungle, Florida – 1904
Power
Winslow Homer – Incoming Tide, Scarboro Maine – 1883
Accomodation
Winslow Homer – A Visit from the Old Mistress – 1876
Busted
Winslow Homer – Prisoners from the Front – 1866
Winslow Homer Week at TechnoChitlins
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator.[1] He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.[2][3]
He is the quintessential American artist; was supposed to get his artistic education in Europe but instead started out doing illustrations for Harper’s Magazine during the Civil War. During and after the war he produced a body of work that has been enjoyed by many to this day. He was one of the best at capturing the unique American spirit.
Happy Thanksgiving
This seemed appropriate, somehow. Via Sippican Cottage
Bad Elections are Not New
A great article at Lowering The Bar
Do you think it got rough out there this year? Not so fast, my friends. In 1796-
The Federalists published anonymous letters accusing Jefferson of having been a coward during the Revolution (scandalous!) and of having an affair with one of his slaves (scandalous! also true!). They also claimed Jefferson was mixed-race himself and that he planned to free all the slaves if he won (scandalous! also false), showing that playing the “race card” is nothing new. (Fun fact: The guy who wrote many of these slurs was Alexander Hamilton.) Other Adams supporters warned that Jefferson’s election “would result in a civil war and a national orgy of rape, incest, and adultery,” and that his supporters were “cut-throats who walk in rags and sleep amid filth and vermin[!].”
The other side, meanwhile, accused Adams of being sympathetic to England, being a monarchist (partly because he thought presidents should be called “His Excellency”), and even for being overweight, ingeniously combining the last two by referring to Adams as “His Rotundity.” They fat-shamed John Adams!
Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it? Read the whole article here– we Americans have a long history of political nastiness. This year was relatively mild by comparison.
Remember
They stood up so you could whine, bitch, and cry- in freedom.