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Winslow Homer
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, 1873–76; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 61.5 × 97 cm.
Winslow Homer’s early interest in art was encouraged by his mother, who was an amateur painter herself.1