The artist withdrew from society, moving first to an island off Gloucester, Mass., then the remote fishing village of ... with a wife," Beam wrote in Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck (1966).

Winslow Homer seemed to change in a fundamental way. Some scholars speculate that there was a failed romance that caused his withdrawal from society. In any case, this great painter of the ...

Two Winslow Homer paintings that were recently appraised on Antiques Roadshow have been auctioned by Christie's during its 19th century American Art and Western Painting sales on January 23.