Sailboats Racing on the Delaware
1874 · Oil on canvas · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
- Year
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 61 × 91.4 cm
- Collection
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Movement
- Realism
Broad white sails of racing boats lean hard in a stiff breeze on the brown waters of the Delaware River, the nearest boat crowded with its crew leaning out to windward. Eakins, who grew up in Philadelphia and rowed and sailed on its rivers, painted the race with the same care for rigging, wind and light he gave his rowing pictures. The far shore is a low line of trees under a pale lavender sky. The painting came to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1929 with the large gift of his work from his widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A breezy white-sail river scene for a study, office or lake house in a black or dark wood frame. It suits pale blue, warm white or navy walls at 24×16 and pairs with Eakins's The Biglin Brothers Racing.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1874)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
