When storms swallowed a merchant vessel on the English coast in 1881, Winslow Homer immortalized ... of American Art, SI The storm pounded in from the North Sea on October 20, 1881, picked up ...

The frugal Winslow Homer was at his most parsimonious with words—especially when asked to reveal his aesthetic ideas or his methods of working. "I think it would probably kill me to have such a ...