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Speaker 1: You'd be hard pressed to find a better collection of

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Speaker 1: Winslow Homer's work anywhere else than the Museum of Fine Arts.

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Speaker 1: They have his first work ever purchased, all the way

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Speaker 1: to his final canvas, and now nearly fifty of his

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Speaker 1: works are finally seeing the light of day again. Quite literally.

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Speaker 1: Curator of Princes and Drawings, Christina Miklon tells me, the

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Speaker 1: watercolors are so light sensitive they haven't been on display

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Speaker 1: in nearly fifty years.

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Speaker 2: The fact that we were able to gather all of

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Speaker 2: these water colors together and show them at the same

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Speaker 2: time is something that really can only happen once a century.

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Speaker 2: We've been saying once a generation, but it's almost more

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Speaker 2: like once a century.

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Speaker 1: The collection features work throughout his career in travels, stretching

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Speaker 1: from the coasts of Cape ann and Maine to the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: The centerpiece is his iconic watercolor, the Blue Boat, which

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Speaker 1: Mickelon says is a true masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: I think the fact that it's still almost as vibrant

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Speaker 2: as the day he painted it is a testament to

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Speaker 2: the stewardship of the museum and to Homer's sort of

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Speaker 2: daring choices in his watercolors.

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Speaker 1: The exhibit runs through mid January from the MFA. Kyle

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