Tag: Halibut Fishing Marine Art The Fog Warning The Gulf Stream The Life Line Winslow Homer Zaidan

Winslow Homer, (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine) The Gulf Stream, c.1899 Oil on canvas 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Homer painted this dramatic scene of imminent disaster. A man faces his demise on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, sustained by only a few…