Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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INSLOW HOMER painfed fhe picfures on This and fhe pre- ceding page. Since fhis is The cenfennial of his birfh and since he painfed many marines if seems appropriafe fo use some of his picfures in fhis sea number of fhe Beacon. Winslow l-lomer was born in Bosfon in I836. He may have inherifed arfisfic falenf from his mofher, who is said fo have had a preffy falenf for painfing flowers. Alfhough mosf of his ancesfors had been seafaring men. he spenf many years painfing ofher subiecfs before he found fhaf his inferesf, foo, was in fhe sea. Then, in I88l, he painfed his firsf sea picfure, and from fhaf fime unfil his deafh in I9l0 he devofed himself almosf exclusively fo marines. If is because of fhese marines fhaf he is honored foday as one of America's greaf arfisfs. The Gulf Strcam, on page nine, was painfed in fhe Bahamas. We reproduce a wafer-color, his favorife me- dium: buf he also painfed fhis subiecf in oils. Of fhe laffer, Kenyon Cox wrofe: lf is su- perbly illusfrafive, buf if is nof only an illusfrafion-The play E of line fhrough fhe composi- fion is magnificenf and fhe color is richer and more powerful fhan anyfhing else ifs aufhor did in oils. Sfowing the Sail also was painfed in fhe Bahamas. These fwo picfures and Uiafchiizg the Sea, a fypical New England scene, are in fhe Ari' lnsfifufe of Chicago, by whose courfesy we are using fhe reproducfions. A very popular work is The L0-okozit, inferprefed in pen and ink in fhe inifial leffer above. Homer is said fo have painfed if enfirely by moon- lighf, never working over if in his sfudio by day. Like mosf of his picfures fhis felis a sfory. Kenyon Cox wrifes of his work as eifher infensely dramafic or grandly epic. Alfhough Homer fraveled in Europe and was familiar wifh fhe work of foreign arfisfs, he did nof imifafe fheir fech- nique. l-le was essenfially an i American painfer. Page Ten

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Page Nine THE GULF STREAM

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Page Elewn The picfures above were submifred in response To a requesf for snapshofs relaiinq ro Jrhe theme, rhe sea. The upper riqhf-hand picfure, Seai Rock, was Taken in San Francisco by Mar- jorie Friqanza. The picrure beiow, submiried by Warren Poffqen, shows his brofher L, P. iLife Preserverj wirh friends in The rank of SS, Pan America. The German warship was snapped oi? 'rhe California coast The remaining picfures were Taken by Mary Haie cn a cruise To Alaska.