Winslow Homer, The War for the Union 1862 - A Cavalry Charge (1862)

The painting career of the until then illustrator Winslow Homer began in 1859 when he moved from Boston to New York. He took easel painting lessons from the French-born landscape a...

The watercolour artist Helena de Kay (1847‒1916) occupied one of the studios in the Tenth Street Studio Building where Homer also began to work in 1871. The progressive-minded youn...