Who created "After the Hurricane, Bahamas"?

After the Hurricane, Bahamas was created by Winslow Homer in 1899.

After the Hurricane, Bahamas

Q: What medium is "After the Hurricane, Bahamas"?

After the Hurricane, Bahamas is Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper.

Winslow Homer

1899

Medium

Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper

Dimensions

37.2 × 54.2 cm (14 11/16 × 21 3/8 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

16776

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...

After the Hurricane, Bahamas

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