Illustrations and Literary Themes in American Art: Works from the Collection

This exhibition juxtaposes American illustration work from the 19th and early 20th centuries with contemporary art.  Winslow Homer’s striking wood engravings of the 1860s and 1870s for Harper’s Monthly represent an important phase of his early career when he was employed as a freelance illustrator and artist reporter. This period coincided with the flourishing of mass market illustrated magazines in America, due to new printing techniques, cheaper paper production, and railways that facilitated distribution.

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