Hurricane, Bahamas
1898 Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
This watercolor depicts the turbulent atmosphere and wind-swept palm trees of a tropical storm hitting a Bahamian landscape. It is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Winslow Homer spent significant time in the Bahamas during the late 1890s, where he created a celebrated series of watercolors capturing the intense light and tropical atmosphere. His ability to convey the raw, chaotic energy of the wind and the fragility of human structures made this work a masterful example of his late-career watercolor technique.
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Hurricane, Bahamas
Winslow Homer, 1898
