The Gulf Stream
Winslow Homer · probably 1899, dated by the artist "1889" · Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and traces of blotting, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Gulf Stream is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated probably 1899, dated by the artist "1889". Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and traces of blotting, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
A watercolor of the Gulf Stream subject: a man on a broken boat, with sharks in the water. The large oil of the same subject is a different picture. This sheet is the watercolor.
About the artist
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was an American painter of the sea, rural work, and the Civil War. He started as an illustrator and later painted the Maine coast in blunt, observed weather.
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