Artwork Title: The New Novel

The New Novel, 1877

Winslow Homer

Artwork Title: The New NovelArtwork Title: The New NovelArtwork Title: The New Novel
"In 1877, Winslow Homer exhibited his watercolor, The New Novel, at an exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. It is an image that below its surface of innocent, leisurely repose churns a contemporary cultural scene fraught with change and fear; the culture-war in the US had begun.... The New Novel captures the moment and encapsulates its cultural context. This is a young woman languidly...." http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2009/12/14/winslow-homer-and-the-women-of-the-new-novel/
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