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Artifacts from the Museum of American Fly Fishing

Winslow Homer 1836 - 1910

Naturalist painter Winslow Homer drew pictures of Civil War battles for Harper's Weekly and continued his work as an illustrator, and then began painting landscapes until he discovered his love of seascapes while living in a small fishing village in England (1881-1882). When he returned to the United States, he settled in Prout's Neck, Maine and concentrated exclusively on painting the sea. An avid fisherman, Homer captured the spirit of fly fishing in dozens of watercolors and oils. Pactured here are his treasured fly rod, a Nichols, P.F., 11 foot, 4 piece (c. 1883) and R.E. LaGrange U.S.Geological Survey map (c.1910).

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