The Life Line
Winslow Homer
1884
Medium
Etching, printed in dark green ink
Dimensions
plate: 12 13/16 x 17 3/4 in. (32.5 x 45.1 cm) sheet: 17 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (45.1 x 58.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.39.1
Tags
MenWomen
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...