A Wall, 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
- 37.8 × 54.3 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Realism
A long whitewashed wall runs across the sheet, with a doorway at the left, while a plant with scarlet, star-shaped blossoms leans over the top against a turquoise sea and a single white sail. Homer made the watercolour in Nassau in the Bahamas during the winter of 1898–99, when he painted in quick, saturated washes and let the white paper do the work of tropical glare. The red flowers and the blue water are the only strong colours in a picture built almost entirely from the blank wall. It is one of the Bahamas watercolours the Metropolitan Museum bought in 1910.
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 sunny turquoise, white and coral watercolour for a bathroom, bedroom or beach house in a thin black frame. It brightens white or pale blue walls at 16×24 and pairs with Homer's Palm Tree, Nassau.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, 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
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
