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Winslow Homer
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, 1873ā76; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 61.5 Ć 97 cm.
Winslow Homer moved from Boston to New York City in 1859 to begin a career as a freelance illustrator.1