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Life-Size Black Bass

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Description: Life-Size Black Bass

TitleLife-Size Black Bass

Creator nameHomer, Winslow

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1904

Object typePainting

MaterialsTransparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scarping, over graphite, on thick, moderatley textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper (left, right, and lower edges trimmed)

Dimensions13 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (35 x 52.6 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/189152

Accession number2007.115

SubjectsRivers in artFishes in artFishing in art

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Technical Commentaries: Cropping

Description: Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light

Homer cropped three centimeters off the lower edge of Life-Size Black Bass (figure a), effectively forcing the viewer into the path of the leaping fish. He then centered and framed the bass for maximum effect by removing a total of two centimeters from the right and left edges. The trimmed edges appear slightly uneven and lack any adhesive residue from the watercolor drawing block. Homer presented the fish crisply against a vague and fluid background, as in a photograph …

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PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Copyright© 2008 by Art Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00173.044

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Chapter subject tags:Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910Watercolor painting--TechniqueComposition (Art)

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