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prize, Soc. Amer. Artists, 1889; first class gold medal, Munich Interna- 

 tional Exp. 1892; gold medal, Columbian Exp., Chicago, 1893; first prize, 

 Cleveland Interstate Exp. 1895; first prize, Tennessee Centennial, 1897; 

 gold medal ($1,500), Carnegie Institute, 1898; chronological medal, Carne- 

 gie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1899; gold medals, Pan-American Exp., Buffalo, 

 1901, and St. Louis Exp. 1904. N. A. 1891. Professor of Art, Smith Col- 

 lege. Specialty, landscapes. Studio, New York. 



ABBOTT HANDERSON THAYER. 



Bom, Boston, Mass., August 12, 1849. Pupil of Gerome and Ecole des 

 Beaux- Arts in Paris. N. A. 1901; Royal Academy of S. Luca, Rome; Nat. 

 Inst. Arts and Letters. 



WINSLOW HOMER. 



A noted landscape, marine, and genre painter, died at his home at Scar- 

 boro. Me., September 29, 1910. He was bom in Boston, February 24, 1836, 

 and at nineteen began working for a lithographer, but two years later took 

 up painting and illustrating. In 1859 he came to New York, and studied 

 for a short time at the National Academy of Design and with Frederick 

 Rondel. Harper & Brothers sent him out to make war pictures in 1861 , and 

 his drawing "Prisoners From the Front," exhibited at the Academy of 

 Design in 1866, attracted much attention. After the war he painted many 

 pictures of negro life, and a visit to the Adirondacks inspired the camping 

 scenes with mountain guides; then came travel in England and France. 

 He is best known, however, by his pictures of the Maine coast, where for 

 many years he lived the life of a recluse at Scarboro, the fisher folk serving 

 as his models. A number of his works were included in the Thomas B. 

 Clarke sale in New York in 1899, among them "The Lookout — All's Well" 

 ($3,200), now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; " Life Line," bought by 

 G. W. Elkins for $4,500, and "Eight Bells," which brought the highest 

 price, $4,700. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York owns his 

 "Northeaster" and "Searchlight — Santiago deCuba," both presented by 

 George A. Heam, and "The Gulf Stream," which was purchased from the 

 exhibition of the National Academy of Design in 1906. During the last ten 

 years Homer painted chiefly in water color, most of his subjects being scenes 

 in the Bermudas, which he visited frequently. His exhibit at the Pan- 

 American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, consisted of a group of water colors, 

 for which he was awarded a gold medal; he received the first prize, $1,500, 

 at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, in 1896; the gold medal at the Penn- 

 sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts the same year; a gold medal at the 

 Paris Exposition in 1900; the Temple gold medal at the Pennsylvania 

 Academy of the Fine Arts in 1902; and gold medals at the Charleston 

 Exposition, 1902; and St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He was elected an 

 Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1864, and an Academician 

 the following year; became a member of the American Water Color Society 

 in 1876, and was also a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters 

 and of the Century Association. American Art Annual, VIII, igio-ii. 



