Cross has done an admirable job of bringing to life this most American of painters. Finally, Winslow Homer's brilliant work and fascinating life are united in one volume.
In this sweeping and comprehensive consideration of Homer’s life and work, William R. Cross offers fresh insight into how his art was shaped and enabled by the changing politics, society, and technology of the world he sought to depict.
Drew Gilpin Faust
author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This rich biography of Winslow Homer is long overdue ... The many nuances of his life that this book reveals deepen our understanding of history, place, and innovation in the United States.
Martha Tedeschi
author (with Kristi Dahm) of Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light
This intelligent and gracefully-written book is a multilayered pleasure to read. William R. Cross is a sensitive observer of every aspect of the man ... A triumph.
Adam Hochschild
author of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
Full of insight, sensitively written, this superb biography tells the story of an artist who had the moral heart of an historian.
Caroline Fraser
author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder