The Cock Fight
Winslow Homer · 1885 · Transparent and opaque watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper (top and lower edges trimmed)
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Cock Fight is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated 1885. Transparent and opaque watercolor, with traces of scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper (top and lower edges trimmed). The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Cock Fight” (1885) 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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