Description
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
Inscription: signed, lower left, ing black ink: WINSLOW HOMER 1873
Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 19.7 x 34.6 cm (7 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson
Accesion Number: 1945.229
Image Licence
CC0 1.0
Image Credit
Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Location
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Country
USA
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
A clambake is a traditional dish made by steaming seafood over layers of seaweed.
