Palm Trees, Bahamas
Artist: Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910)
Date: about 1898-1899
Dimensions:
H: 17 5/16 in. (43.9 cm); W: 14 9/16 in. (37 cm)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1952.27
Label Text:Palm Trees, Bahamas was painted in the winter months of 1898–99, probably in Nassau, where American master of the watercolor Winslow Homer spent many of his winters beginning around this time. “I think the Bahamas the best place I have ever found,” he wrote.
Conceived from a low vantage point, the curving and straight trunks of palm trees climb toward a stormy sky against which their dark fronds are ominously silhouetted. In the lower right a reddish-brown steeple subtly rises above the sloping ridge in the middle distance. The untouched white of the sheet, here seen in much of the sky at right, plays a significant and intentional role in the completion of the composition.
Conceived from a low vantage point, the curving and straight trunks of palm trees climb toward a stormy sky against which their dark fronds are ominously silhouetted. In the lower right a reddish-brown steeple subtly rises above the sloping ridge in the middle distance. The untouched white of the sheet, here seen in much of the sky at right, plays a significant and intentional role in the completion of the composition.
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