Palm Tree, Nassau
1898 · Watercolour and graphite on off-white wove paper · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Watercolour and graphite on off-white wove paper
- Original size
- 54.3 × 37.8 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Realism
A tall coconut palm bends in the wind against a white-and-blue sky above the turquoise water at Nassau, with a red flag and a lighthouse on the horizon. Homer wintered in the Bahamas in 1884–85 and again in 1898–99 and painted some of his freshest watercolours there. The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought this sheet in 1910, the year of his death.
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 tropical watercolour in blue and green for a bathroom, bedroom or beach house in a thin black frame. It brightens white or pale aqua walls and pairs with Sloop, Nassau.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
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.
