Correcting the record
Art and the battle for identity
Why do great artists die young?
—Transcend criticism by embracing solitude
Winslow Homer would hate this biography. When his first biographer, a Boston art critic named William Howe Downes, contacted him for an interview, Homer replied:'It may seem ungrateful to you that after your twenty-five years of hard work in booming my pictures that I should not agree with you in regard to that proposed sketch of my life.