Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm He also worked as a

He also worked as a musician

particularly his self-portraits

some of whom were his students

Date: 1911-1917

Creator: Winslow Homer

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm He also worked as aLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in