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What Is The Fog Warning By Alfond Gallery?

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I am currently standing in the Barbara and Theodore Alfond Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The gallery is consisted of many paintings of 1800-1900s North America, and the atmosphere of the area is very calm and quiet. Mainly portraits and landscape paintings occupy the gallery, although some artifacts from the time period are here as well, like lockets and furniture. The room is covered in pale blue wallpaper, which is fitting because the painting that I am currently looking at is The Fog Warning by 19th century painter Winslow Homer. According to the description the Museum of Fine Arts provided with the painting, Homer settled in Prout’s Neck, Maine in the late 1800s, which is a fishing community and a summer

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