Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910

The jubilation at the end of World War II in September of 1945 fueled a hunger for commemorative illustration, and N. C. Wyeth , along with Norman Rockwell, rose to the occasion. Rockwell produced his own picture of a G.I. coming home from the war for the Saturday Evening Post . He used an even tighter cropping of a similar composition in 1948, the open-ended Homecoming. These share an urban setting and the warm embrace of family and neighborhood characters, and they are certainly among the most memorable images of...