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Prout's Neck, Breaking Wave, 1887. Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over resist and traces of graphite, on medium weight, moderately textured, ivory wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper.
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over resist and traces of graphite, on medium weight, moderately textured, ivory wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper · 38 × 54.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Prout's Neck, Breaking Wave
- Artist
- Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over resist and traces of graphite, on medium weight, moderately textured, ivory wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 38 × 54.4 cm (15 × 21 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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.