American Everyman: Winslow Homer

with Bill Cross

Biographer William (Bill) R. Cross tells the stories of Americans whose works are known, but whose lives are not. In 2019, he curated Homer at the Beach, A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869-1880, a nationally acclaimed exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum that revealed Homer’s formation as a marine artist. In Winslow Homer: American Passage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) Cross unveils his subject’s surprising role as the visual counterpart to American literary figures such as Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.