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Netting the Fish, 1889. Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper · 35.3 × 50.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Netting the Fish
- Artist
- Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.3 × 50.8 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)
- Credit line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1836–1910
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.