Boy on a Raft
Winslow Homer · 1879 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Public domain
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About this picture
Boy on a Raft is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated 1879. Watercolor over graphite on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Boy on a Raft” (1879) 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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