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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.
In his 1869 painting Long Branch, New Jersey, Winslow Homer depicts a scene of fashionable ladies promenading along the seashore.1
This work is noted for its depiction of a happy, lighthearted scene, contrasting with the more somber themes of human struggle and isolation that would characterize much of his later, more powerful work.1