Maine Cliffs
Winslow Homer
American Art
Winslow Homer increasingly subordinated the human figure to the landscape in works produced after he moved to the coastal town of Prout’s Neck, Maine. In this watercolor, he rendered the boulders as an almost abstract series of intersecting planes, highlighted with bright accents of color including the red berries in the shrubs and the blue streak of ocean in the distance. The high horizon line and flattened space betray the artist’s familiarity with Japanese prints.
MEDIUM
Watercolor over charcoal on cream, thick, rough-textured wove paper
DATES
1883
DIMENSIONS
13 3/8 x 19 3/16in. (34 x 48.7cm)
Frame: 24 x 30 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed and dated lower right: "Homer 1883"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
50.184
CREDIT LINE
Bequest of Sidney B. Curtis in memory of S.W. Curtis
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Winslow Homer (American, 1836â1910). Maine Cliffs, 1883. Watercolor over charcoal on cream, thick, rough-textured wove paper, 13 3/8 x 19 3/16in. (34 x 48.7cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Sidney B. Curtis in memory of S.W. Curtis, 50.184 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.184_SL3.jpg)
IMAGE
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