Two Sailboats

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Two Sailboats

1880

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Homer’s skill as a watercolor painter grew during his second long sojourn in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1880, when his work became breathtakingly fluid and impressionistic. Exploiting the texture of the paper and the range of transparency in his pigments, Homer used techniques like scraping to add highlights to his boldly simplified compositions.

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Object Details

Title:

Two Sailboats

Date:

1880

Artist:

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Medium:

Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and graphite, with scraping, on wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 8 1/4 x 16 11/16 inches (21 x 42.4 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Woodward, 1939

Accession Number:

1939-7-11

Geography:

Made in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

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