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"title": "Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond",
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"description": "Long Island, NY: The Museums at Stony Brook; New London, CT: Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College. \"The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America: 1877-1887\" 10/9/99 - 5/7/00.",
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"description": "Syracuse University Art Galleries, NY (8/18/2009 - 10/11/2009): \"Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond\", cat. no. 12, p. 59.",
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"description": "Homer spent the summer of 1878 at Mountainsville, New York, where his brother's business partner, Lawson Valentine, had a country place called Houghton Farm. While there he developed pastoral images of shepherdesses. The flirtatious quality of these depictions becomes intriguing when we consider that Homer never married, and that he worked not only from female models but also sometimes from boys in girls' clothing.",
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