b Prout’s Neck, Breakers, 1883 Watercolor, with blotting and...

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TitleProut's Neck, Breakers

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1883

MaterialsWatercolor, with blotting and sanding, over charcoal, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper

Dimensions15 x 21 1/2 in. (38.1 x 54.6 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16815

Accession number1933.1247

SubjectsCoasts--MaineSea in artWaves in art

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Technical Commentaries: Sandpaper

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

English watercolor artists of Homer’s era commonly used sandpaper as a reductive tool. One popular authority wrote that, when “carefully employed,” it “is one of the most successful ways by which atmosphere is given to dark and clouded skies.” Homer used sandpaper to tease out clouds and mist from an even, blue-gray sky in Prout's Neck, Breakers (figure b). Noninvasive analysis of the work's surface revealed that silica, a sandpaper residue, is present throughout the sheet. …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.039

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14123&redirecttoanchor=10330

Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Watercolor painting--Technique

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