b Apple Picking, 1878 Opaque watercolor, over graphite, on medium-weight,...

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TitleApple Picking

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

MaterialsOpaque watercolor, over graphite, on medium-weight, slightly textured, gray-green wove paper, altered to brown, laid down on board

Dimensions7 x 8 3/8 in. (17.8 x 21.3 cm)

LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago (on deposit at the Art Institute of Chicago)

https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/261/apple-picking

Accession number1992.7

SubjectsGirls in artFarm life in artApples in artRealism in artWatercolor painting, American

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Chapter 9. Impressionism from Munich and Rome

Kathleen A. Foster

American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent

The third growth spurt of the American Society of Painters in Water Colors, like the first two, was launched by an especially large and stimulating exhibition that drew yet more attention from the press and a wave of new talent...

Author

Kathleen A. Foster

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.183-215

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00253.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21408&redirecttoanchor=10286

Chapter subject tags:Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903Impressionism (Art)--United StatesSargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Still-life painting, American--19th centuryWomen artists--United States

Technical Commentaries: Opaque Watercolor

Kristi Dahm

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

In the summer of 1878, as he painted Apple Picking (figure b), Homer followed traditional opaque watercolor technique in order to record two girls pausing in a sunlit orchard. To achieve both brightness and opacity, he used zinc white watercolor throughout, mixing it with and layering it under transparent watercolor. For example, he scumbled blue, pale green, and pink watercolors, each mixed with white, across darker preliminary washes to give the effect of light …

Author

Kristi Dahm

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.020

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14104&redirecttoanchor=10286

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

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