Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) contributed illustrations of Boston life and rural New England life to magazines such as Ballou's Pictorial and Harper's Weekly. His early works were mostly commercial wood engravings of urban and country social scenes characterized by clean outlines, simplified forms, dramatic contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupings, and on the front lines of the Civil War, he sketched battle...