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The 19th century would be rocked artistically by the Impressionist movement, which marked a radical departure from the realism of the past. In America, Winslow Homer worked as a magazine illustrator covering the Civil War before creating brilliant paintings. And in the new world of commercial art, Currier & Ives labored to produce images ordinary people could hang on their walls.
Winslow Homer at the National Gallery
A highly informative online exhibition devoted to Winslow Homer at the National Gallery of Art.
The Van Gogh Museum
The museum in Amsterdam devoted to the brilliant painter provides information about his life as well as examples of his work, which can often be explored in stunning detail.

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