| Winslow Homer: Blackboard ( ) | |
|---|---|
| Object type | painting |
| Date | 1877 |
| Medium | watercolor on wove paper |
| Dimensions | height: 50.1 cm (19.7 in); width: 32.3 cm (12.7 in) |
Winslow Homer's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $25 USD to $4,572,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $4,572,500 USD for Where are the Boats?, sold at Christie's New York in 2018.
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is regarded by many as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. Born in Boston and raised in rural Cambridge, he began his career as a commercial printmaker, first in Boston and then in New York, where he settled in 1859. He briefly studied oil painting in the spring of 1861.
carbon paperHe used carbon paper in the 1860s and 1870s to make copies of his works, to experiment with winning designs in various media and to save time—all of prime concern to Homer.
Homer's work gained traction during the 1870s, and during the summer of 1873 while in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Homer began to devote serious attention to painting with watercolors for which he remains the greatest American painter associated with the medium through today.Mar 10, 2020
He did not study formally but he practiced landscape painting while continuing to work for Harper's, depicting scenes of Parisian life. Homer painted about a dozen small paintings during the stay.
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He used watercolors to record the activities and environment that were specific to each place. With quick brushstrokes, he captured crashing waves, moving ani- mals, and the visual effects of changing light. To suggest sunlight, Homer left areas of the white paper untouched.
Homer started his Gloucester watercolors with loose graphite underdrawings on top of which he applied washes, along with opaque watercolor and gouache. He used paper with a smooth finish, but didn't wet it first, as was the common practice among watercolorists who made tightly detailed works.
In most respects his watercolor technique is also traditional, starting with a careful pencil drawing and using a minimal palette (in many cases limited to yellow ochre, burnt sienna, light red or venetian red, prussian blue, and ivory black).
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74 years (1836–1910)Winslow Homer / Age at death
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