Fisherman and Girl in a Rowboat Streaked Red, White and Blue – (Winslow Homer) Previous Next


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Date: 1881

Museum: Charles Allis Art Museum (Milwaukee, United States)

Technique: Watercolor

This painting references the working people Winslow Homer saw on a daily basis on the East Coast. His attention to detail in this watercolor is impeccable, enticing the viewer to take a deeper look at the scene he has depicted.Homer is known to have painted ​en plein air (in open air, or outside), and the view in front of him would have often included boats, fishermen and women at work. His works capture the dignity and power of working people. In this painting, the boat and figures are clouded with mist, as they would be when going out early in the morning to fish. The fisherman

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