# Fishermen Beaching a Dory, Cullercoats, England

**Winslow Homer** (American, 1836–1910)  
1881  
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. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/19042).

## About this work

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._

Winslow Homer drew this in 1881, aged 45. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### What you’re looking at

FISHERMEN BEACHING A DORY, CULLERCOATS, ENGLAND

_Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

### 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was 45
- Real size: about 7 × 12 in (18 × 30 cm). Closest to life size: the 8 × 10 in print.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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