"According to the art historian Charles Colbert, the usual practice of painters in this period ‘was to let the horizon fade into visual and conceptual insignificance’. But in Homer the horizon does not recede; it pitches forward, towards our world."

Elisa Tamarkin on #WinslowHomer at @lrb

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/elisa-tamarkin/at-the-national-gallery