c The End of the Day, Adirondacks, 1890 Transparent watercolor, with...

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Description: The End of the Day, Adirondacks

TitleThe End of the Day, Adirondacks

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1890

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper

Dimensions13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.4 x 50.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16785

Accession number1933.1238

SubjectsAdirondack Mountains (N.Y.)Canoes and canoeing in artLakes in art

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Technical Commentaries: Tamping the Brush

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Homer was always experimenting with different ways of making marks. For example, in The End of the Day, Adirondacks (figure a). To render these blunt marks, which he left in dry, blue-green wash, the artist used a flat brush with a round end one centimeter wide. He may have employed the same tool to paint the black, horizontal strokes in the reflection of man and boat; this is suggested by the round front ends and uniform one-centimeter widths of those brushstrokes. …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.029

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14113&redirecttoanchor=10310

Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Watercolor painting--TechniqueArtists' tools

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