Sailboats Racing on the Delaware
1874 · Oil on canvas · Philadelphia Museum of Art
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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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 16×24 and pairs with Eakins's The Biglin Brothers Racing.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1874)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- study or library, home office, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
