Elisa Tamarkin

Elisa Tamarkin is the author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Rel­evance.

At the National Gallery: Winslow Homer

Elisa Tamarkin, 15 December 2022

At the time​ of his death in 1910, Winslow Homer was considered one of America’s greatest painters, yet he remains largely unknown in the UK. No work by Homer can be found in a British public collection, and the current retrospective at the National Gallery (until 8 January) is only the second exhibition of his work, though Homer painted a number of English scenes and stayed near...

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