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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.
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.
Amos Ferguson was born on February 28, 1920, in Exuma, Bahamas. [2] His father was a preacher, carpenter, and farmer. [2] [3] He was one of fourteen children. [2] Ferguson worked as an upholsterer, furniture finisher, artist and house painter. He wasn't trained as an artist, and was known as an outsider artist. Ferguson often said "I paint by ...
Frederick Childe Hassam (/ ˈ tʃ aɪ l d ˈ h æ s əm /; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums.
Beanie was mostly self-taught, although he did enjoy two summer stints at the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1924–25. [12] Backus always earned his living through his artistic talent, first as a commercial artist painting signs, billboards and theater marquees, and later encouraged by Dorothy Binney Palmer, his first true patron, to pursue his landscape paintings as a full-time ...
A painting from Picasso's Blue Period (1901-1904), the painting depicts a family of poor people by the sea. The three figures are rendered in an almost monochrome palette in different shades of blue. The three figures, barefoot and cold, allude to the Holy Family and reflect a sense of melancholy and closure in their silent despair.
A solo exhibit at the Newhouse Galleries in New York featured her floral paintings. [10] Four years after her husband's death, she married New Haven physician James S. McCarty in 1939. Their marriage lasted for less than a year. [7] Peterson died on August 14, 1965, on a trip to join a niece in Kansas. [3] [10]
People are herded into a coffin-shaped trap decorated with crosses, while skeletons on horseback kill people with a scythe. This is one of four horses ridden by skeletons that are depicted in the painting, probably alluding to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The painting depicts people of different social backgrounds – from peasants and ...