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Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast
Homer may have been remembering his own trip across the North Atlantic when he composed this image of mariners reefing a sail in windy weather, high above the deck. His imaginative viewpoint, suspended in mid-air, gives a dizzying sense of the difficulty and danger of the sailor’s life.
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