Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Winslow Homer
Born: February 24, 1836
Died: September 29, 1910 (aged 74)
Bio: Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Known for:
- Snap the Whip (1872)
- Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1876)
- The Gulf Stream (1899)
- The Fog Warning (1885)
- Prisoners from the Front (1866)