Boy in Boat, Gloucester
Winslow Homer · 1880/81 · Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Boy in Boat, Gloucester is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated 1880/81. Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Boy in Boat, Gloucester” (1880/81) is observed weather, sea, or work. Homer started as an illustrator and later painted the water with very little idealizing.
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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