Shore and Surf, Nassau
1899 Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
This watercolor depicts a turbulent coastal scene in Nassau with a dramatic, stormy sky and a distant steamship. It showcases the artist's mastery of light and water movement, characteristic of his late career tropical travel series.
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Winslow Homer made several trips to the Bahamas in the late 1890s, using these visits to produce some of the most celebrated watercolors in American art. He was particularly drawn to the intense, shifting colors of the Caribbean sea, which he captured with a sophisticated sense of transparency and speed that differed from his earlier, tighter oil paintings.
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Shore and Surf, Nassau
Winslow Homer, 1899
