A Clam-Bake — About This Work
Winslow Homer, 1873
About the Work
Boys rest among coastal rocks beneath a broad sea horizon. Homer joins small human incidents with the larger shape of the shore, keeping the scene grounded in the particular surfaces of a beach.
The watercolour belongs to his early work at Gloucester in 1873. The museum notes the continuing importance of line in these paintings, where colour can behave like an addition to a drawn framework.
Homer later combined the composition with other sketches for an illustration published that August. The sheet therefore stands both as an image in its own right and as part of an exchange between watercolour and printed illustration.
The Work
Artist: Winslow Homer
Title: A Clam-Bake
Date: 1873
Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite
Recorded dimensions: 34.6 × 19.7 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1945.229
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 40 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Gift of Mrs. Homer H. Johnson. 1945.229.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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