Watching the Breakers / Winslow Homer

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Art Item Information

©Gilcrease Museum

Title(s):

Watching the Breakers

Creator(s):

Winslow Homer (Artist)

Culture:

American

Date:

1891

Materials/Techniques:

oil on canvas

Classification:

Paintings

Object Type:

Oil Painting

Credit Line:

Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955 Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Accession No:

01.2264

Previous Number(s):

0126.2264; 33024

Department:

Art

Not On View

Dimensions

Image:

Height: 29 3/8in. (74.6cm)
Width: 39 3/8in. (100.0cm)

Framed:

Height: 37in. (94.0cm)
Width: 47in. (119.4cm)
Depth: 3 5/8in. (9.2cm)

Other (Canvas):

Height: 76 13/64in. (193.5cm)
Width: 102 7/8in. (261.3cm)

About the Creator(s)

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Winslow Homer

Role(s):

Artist

From Getty's Union List of Artist Names:

Names (all):

Homer, Winslow

Birth Date:

1836

Death Date:

1910

Nationalities:

American (North American)

Roles:

American painter and illustrator, 1836-1910

Gender:

male

Note:

American painter. Comment on works: genre Comment on works: "French Village"

Marks and Inscriptions

Signed: Signed, "Homer 1891" in lower right corner

Tags and Search Terms

Tags:

basket, beach, black, bleak, brown, bun, bush, clouds, coastline, confident, dated, dresses, ears, engaged, females, Friends, gray, grey, hairstyles, hands (animal components), hat, letters (signs), melancholy, New England, noses (animal components), numbers, Ocean, onlookers, Outdoors, pensive, plants, rage, rain, Realism, red, rock, roots, scarf, scene shows Maine shoreline, sea, Seascape, seashore, shadows, shawl, shore (landform), shorelines, signatures (names), thinking, tidal waves, water, waves, white, windy, women

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Homer, Winslow. Watching the Breakers. 01.2264. 1891. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/012264 (05/08/2019).

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