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The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.
Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects.He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
Kendal Hanna (born 1936), painter and sculptor, the Bahamas’ first abstract expressionist; Brent Malone (1941–2004), painter and gallery owner; Lavar Munroe (born 1982), painter, mixed media drawer, and installation artist; Christophe Roberts (born 1980), multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, graphic design, painting, and creative ...
The work was painted in the Bahamas in 1885. It is in watercolour and pencil. [1] It measures 14 inches by 20 inches and depicts the three children of Sir Henry Blake, the colonial governor of the Bahamas at the time. [2] They were attending a fancy dress party in Arabian costume.
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
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Interestingly, in addition to the four figures in the final painting, the original composition contained two others that almost formed a pyramid and filled the upper part in a scenic third plane. These two men, who were present in the planning phase, were excluded from the final composition of the painting and obscured by the brown background.