Movie Learning Guides | Winslow Homer: An American Original

Description / Introduction

• Character Development: Grieving, Talent, Mental Illness
• Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness, Responsibility
• Subjects: Medicine, Visual Arts, U.S./1861 - 1913

Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) needed peace and quiet to concentrate on his painting. In the summer of 1878, friends were planning to be away from a farm that they owned in upstate New York. They offered Homer the use of the farm so that he could have the solitude he craved. This film tells the...

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