Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Clear Sailing 1880 Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910 Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite with scraping on heavy wove paper Currently not on view 1939-7-8 Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Woodward, 1939 |
LabelHomer spent much of the summer of 1880 lodging with the lighthouse keeper on Ten Pound Island in the middle of Gloucester, Massachusetts’s busy harbor. From this isolated vantage, the graceful vessels of the fishing fleet and the idle boys who watch from the rocks are suffused with a sense of nostalgia and serenity. |
