a Detail of Stowing Sail, showing Homer’s inscription.

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TitleStowing Sail, detail

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1903

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

DimensionsUnknown

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/16831

Accession number1933.1252

SubjectsPlein air paintingInscriptionsSignatures (Writing)

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Technical Commentaries: Sketching Nature

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Homer painted Stowing Sail (figure b) on December 22, 1903, in Key West, during his fourth trip to Florida. During that month, the average maximum and minimum temperatures were 70 and 62 degrees Fahrenheit with total precipitation measuring 71 inches. These were ideal conditions for painting outdoors, and everything about this watercolor points toward rapid, plein-air execution. …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.043

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14127&redirecttoanchor=10337

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

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