HOMER, Winslow. An Afterglow. 1883. w.c. over graphite
on paper. 15 x 21.5 in. Boston, MFA
Paul Staiti, Alumnae Foundation Professor
of Fine Arts, teaches courses in American art, American studies, and Film
studies. His seminars have been on Hollywood Film and The Gilded Age. He has
published on the artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, still-life painter
William Michael Harnett, and the colonial portraitist John Singleton Copley.
For the last artist he curated an exhibition for The Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has also published
on the portraits of nineteenth-century American capitalists at the New York
Chamber of Commerce and the late sea pictures of Winslow Homer, his favorite
of which you see above.
