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FISHERMEN BEACHING A DORY, CULLERCOATS, ENGLAND

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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

Fishermen Beaching a Dory, Cullercoats, England1881

Charcoal, black and white chalk on cream wove paper

17.6 x 30 cm (6 15/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · 1912-12-41

Horizontal view of five fishermen shown beaching a boat on a four- wheeled truck, in the foreground, with sailboats on the sea indicated in the background. More about this work

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Archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm cotton paper, with a white border.

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20 × 16 in · image 17¾ × 10¾
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gsm
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$56

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Horizontal view of five fishermen shown beaching a boat on a four- wheeled truck, in the foreground, with sailboats on the sea indicated in the background.

Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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FISHERMEN BEACHING A DORY, CULLERCOATS, ENGLAND

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How it was made

Chalk
Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
Charcoal
Burnt willow or vine. It smudges and wipes away easily, which made it the natural tool for working out a composition.

Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910 · Born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Prouts Neck, Maine.

Homer began as an illustrator, covering the Civil War for Harper’s Weekly, and first made his name in painting with scenes of soldiers and country life. A stay at the fishing village of Cullercoats on the English coast in 1881–82 turned him towards the sea, and from 1883 he lived at Prouts Neck, Maine, painting the Atlantic in all weathers. He was also a fluent watercolourist in the Adirondacks, Canada and the Caribbean, and The Gulf Stream draws on those southern journeys.

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Public domain. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number
1912-12-41
Credit
Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Type
Drawing
Department
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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