Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Paintings In 1 857, when Homer was twenty-one, he took a small room in Ballou's Pieto rial Building, Winter Street, Boston, and began to work independently. He made drawings for Ballou's Monthly and other illustrated periodicals, and about 1 8 58 the first of a long series of drawings for Har per's Weekly. His earliest subjects were Boston scenes. He went to New York in 1 8 59 and rented a studio in Nassau Street. Then for the first time he began to study painting. F rederick ...
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Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Paintings In 1 857, when Homer was twenty-one, he took a small room in Ballou's Pieto rial Building, Winter Street, Boston, and began to work independently. He made drawings for Ballou's Monthly and other illustrated periodicals, and about 1 8 58 the first of a long series of drawings for Har per's Weekly. His earliest subjects were Boston scenes. He went to New York in 1 8 59 and rented a studio in Nassau Street. Then for the first time he began to study painting. F rederick Ronde] showed him how to set a palette and use the brushes, and the following year he attended an evening class at the National Academy of Design, then on Thirteenth Street. In 1 861 he moved to the old New York Uni versity Building in Washington Square, where many of the artists of that day had their studios. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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