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Northshore October 2025
The enchanting power of the ocean and one artist who mined its possibilities shapes the theme of Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869-1880 at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester (August 3 to December 1, 2019). Co-curator William Cross explains that he began with a basic question: “How did a relatively little-known American with ambition and talent become the great marine painter that we know today?” To arrive at a concrete answer, Cross and co-curator Henry Adams narrowed their focus to the art Homer created across six locations, including Gloucester, where he summered during two seminal years, 1873 and 1880, and where
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