Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper, Marine 2391

1933.1

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Artist

Winslow Homer (Boston, Massachusetts, 2/24/1836 - 9/29/1910, Prout's Neck, Maine)

Title

Marine

Creation Date

1881

Century

19th century

Dimensions

9 3/4 in. x 13 1/2 in. (24.77 cm x 34.29 cm)

Object Type

watercolor

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

Credit Line

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Bequest of The Honorable Augustus F. Moulton, Class of 1873, A.M. 1876, L.L.D. 1928

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1933.1

Created on a trip from New York to England in 1881, “Marine” is one of two watercolors of the same vessel seen from opposite ends. The work acutely sharpens the viewer’s perception of time. A sea-legged sailor balances on board a ship, as the vessel makes its way through the roiling waves. The subject tests the artist’s sense of balance and challenges him to turn a momentous event into an image with staying power. Homer gave this watercolor to his younger brother Arthur, who placed it on the mantelpiece of his cottage at Prout’s Neck and later sold it to the lawyer and local historian Augustus Moulton.