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03 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS BY WINSLOW HOMER – WITH FOOTNOTES, #54
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…