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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Kendal Hanna (born June 25, 1936) [1] was a painter and sculptor known as one of The Bahamas’ first abstract expressionist. [2] His works have been inspired by and compared to international artists and fellow abstractionists such as William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, Joan Miró and Mark Rothko.
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.
A man who was stranded for three days on Cay Sal, a small and uninhabited Bahamas island, was rescued on Friday. Man stranded for 3 days on uninhabited Bahamas island is rescued by Coast Guard ...
The original watercolour painting, together with three others in a series by Cleveley, was put up for auction by Christie's auction house in London in 2004. The lot of four paintings sold for £318,850 (US$572,655).