High Cliff, Coast of Maine
1894 · Oil on canvas · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
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About this work
- Artist
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
- Year
- 1894
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 76.8 × 97.2 cm
- Collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
- Movement
- Realism
A dark cliff of brown and grey rock rises steeply across the canvas while surf explodes against its foot, and a few tiny figures stand on the summit at the upper right, dwarfed by the scale of the coast. Homer painted it at Prouts Neck in Maine in 1894, in the decade he devoted almost entirely to the sea and the rocks below his studio. The thick, scraped paint gives the rock real weight against the white spray. It came to the national collection in Washington in 1909.
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 dramatic brown-and-white coastal cliff for a study, office or hallway in a dark wood frame. It holds warm grey, stone or deep green walls at 16×24 and pairs with Homer's Cannon Rock.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1894)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining 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.





































