The next major change in Winslow Homer's life was a decision to work in a new medium.

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Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century.

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But Homer's later life was also filled with travel, which provided subjects for his paintings.

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In eighteen fifty-nine, Winslow Homer moved to New York City to work for Harper's Weekly.

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But,something would intervene that would change the direction of Winslow Homer's artistic work.

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Homer's decision to use watercolor may have been connected with another major decision.

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But in the summer of eighteen seventy-three, Homer began using watercolor paint.

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One of Homer's best paintings from this period is called "Breezing Up."

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Homer also spent time in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.

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Homer created pictures that showed the relationship between humans and nature.

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Whatever changed him, Homer must have felt a need to escape.

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Winslow Homer also made a famous painting called "Home,Sweet Home."

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As he grew older, Homer increasingly painted subjects facing death.

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One of Homer's last paintings is called "Right and Left."

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