b After the Hurricane, Bahamas, 1899 Transparent watercolor, with touches...

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Description: After the Hurricane, Bahamas

TitleAfter the Hurricane, Bahamas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1899

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper

Dimensions15 x 21 3/8 in. (38 x 54.3 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16776

Accession number1933.1235

SubjectsIslands--BahamasBeaches in artShipwrecks in artWatercolor painting, AmericanMarine painting, AmericanBlack people in art

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Chapter 13. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Prendergast, Homer, and Sargent

Kathleen A. Foster

American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

Impressionism, as demonstrated by Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir in oil, watercolor, and pastel, coexisted with Tonalism...

Author

Kathleen A. Foster

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.295-331

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00253.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21412&redirecttoanchor=10336

Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Prendergast, Maurice, 1858-1924Impressionism (Art)--United StatesPost-impressionism (Art)

Picturing: An Introduction

Rachael Z. DeLue

Picturing

In the early 1880s, the American artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sketched a tragic scene: a capsized boat foundering near a rocky shore lined with trees. At least one figure appears to be floating in the...

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Rachael Z. DeLue

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.10-40

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00190.001

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Chapter subject tags:Marine painting, AmericanHomer, Winslow, 1836-1910Art historians

Technical Commentaries: Revision

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Homer altered the position of the shipwrecked man’s proper right arm in After the Hurricane, Bahamas (figure b). Initially, he painted the arm bent at the elbow with the wrist elevated and bent forward. Then he scraped away the paint in the area of the elbow and foreshortened the arm as he repainted it (see figure a). Roughened fibers and brown and black pigments remain in the scraped area. To camouflage the change, the artist added strands of beach grass. This decision may have …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.042

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14126&redirecttoanchor=10336

Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Watercolor painting--TechniqueHuman figure in art

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