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Netting the Fish

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Description: Netting the Fish

TitleNetting the Fish

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions13 7/8 x 20 in. (35.3 x 50.8 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/14837

Accession number1933.526

SubjectsMonochrome artFishing in artCanoes and canoeing in art

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Technical Commentaries: From Watercolor to Etching

Description: Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Homer’s monochromatic watercolor Netting the Fish (figure c). In the latter work, the artist’s goal was to move beyond a traditional, linear approach to etching, translating the fluid effects of watercolor to a copper plate. He attempted to accomplish this by replicating his watercolor manipulations with a series of analogous etching techniques. …

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Copyright© 2008 by Art Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.047

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

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