[Homer, Winslow]:

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[LIFE IN CAMP]. Winslow Homer's second series of lithographs from his formative Civil War period, and a defining moment in his career as a printmaker. This series follows Homer's seminal Campaign Sketches (1863), and furthers the artist's talent for communicating the war experience on an intimate and personal level.This set is particularly interesting for being printed on three conjoined sheets (eight illustrations to a sheet), and bound accordion style into a cloth binding. Homer's illustrations for this series are most often encountered as individual cards, usually affixed to larger sheets. This accordion-style printing is quite unusual. The binding is stamped "MILITARY ALBUM 1861 TO 1865," but it is presumed that the illustrations were printed in 1864. Homer's lithographs were produced in colored and uncolored versions; this set is uncolored.In 1854, Homer began his career as an apprentice for the famed Boston lithography firm of John H. Bufford, and in the course of several years there he learned the techniques of lithography which he later employed in making Life in Camp. Most of his published work from this period is illustrated sheet music. In 1859 he moved to New York, creating illustrations for publications such as Ballou's Magazine and Harper's Weekly. It was as an illustrator for the latter publication that Homer made his first contact with the Civil War. In the fall of 1861, and again in the spring of 1862, Homer joined the encampment of McClellan's Army of the Po

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