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Abundant Bibliophiles
Includes and expands on excerpts from the author's Nancy Cowan Lecture to the Baxter Society, Portland, 8 May 2002, with reprints of notices about private libraries in Portland, Me., by Hubbard Winslow Bryant that appeared in the Portland daily press, 1863-1864.
Winslow Homer: American Passage
The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose—yet whose own story has remained largely untold. In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration shows a crowd of abolitionists on the brink of eviction from a church; at their front is Frederick Douglass, declaring “the freedom of all mankind.” Homer, born into the Panic of 1837 a...
