Winslow Homer: American Passage - Paperbackby William R. Cross (Author) The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose yet whose own story has remained largely untold. In 1860, at the age of twenty four, Winslow Homer (1836 1910) sold Harper's Weekly two dozen wood engravings. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown. His illustration