Our Watering Places--Horse-racing at Saratoga, from Harper's Weekly, August 26, 1865

Winslow HomerWW-1865-080216

1865·wood engraving on paper·image: 9 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (23.5 x 35.2 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1865
Medium: wood engraving on paper
Dimensions: image: 9 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (23.5 x 35.2 cm)
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist: Winslow Homer

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Winslow Homer

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Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.

Boston, MA, USA

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