PORTLAND,
ME.- On June 5, the Portland Museum of Art
will debut a website of highlights from its Winslow Homer illustrations
collection. This groundbreaking online gallery on the Museum’s website,

www.portlandmuseum.org,
will provide searchable and
zoomable access to more than 250 of Homer’s wood engravings. Many of
these works
have never been seen by the public before. The engravings are part of a
gift of
445 Homer wood engravings given to the Museum by Peggy and Harold Osher
in 1991,
a nearly comprehensive collection of Homer’s graphic work. The
launch
of this online gallery is in celebration of the Museum’s exhibition
Winslow
Homer and the Poetics of Place on view June 5 through September 12. A
computer
station will be available in the exhibition to allow visitors access to
all of
these works.