A Fisher Girl on Beach (Sketch for Illustration of "The Incoming Tide")
Winslow Homer
1876
Medium
Metalpoint (?) and crayon on white wove paper
Dimensions
14 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (37.5 x 28.9 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.165
Tags
WomenBeachesBoats
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...