Textile Fragment
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Object Label
Winslow Homer, who rose to national prominence in the 1860s for his magazine illustrations and oil paintings of modern American life, took up watercolor in the 1870s. Fresh Air is one of the most ambitious of an early series of plein air watercolors depicting fancifully dressed shepherdesses that Homer made at Houghton Farm, a patron’s country estate in upstate New York. He created brilliant effects of light and atmosphere by exploiting the natural transparency of the medium and the brightness of the white paper. To achieve the subtle coloration in the sky, he applied overlapping washes of grays, pinks, and blues and then blotted them together.
Caption
Textile Fragment, early 12th century. Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band, 3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm) Frame: 1 15/16 x 9 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. (5 x 23 x 40.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.102. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.102_PS1.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Textile Fragment
Date
early 12th century
Period
Fatimid Period
Medium
Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band
Classification
Dimensions
3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm) Frame: 1 15/16 x 9 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. (5 x 23 x 40.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
86.227.102
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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