Paint and Its Surface
Winslow Homer
The Return, Tynemouth (recto)
1881
Transparent and opaque watercolor with gum glaze over graphite on paper, 34.2 × 34.3 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Look at the pale pink in the clouds and on the boat. Homer used colors that resist light here; in many of his other watercolors, similar washes made with less stable reds have faded.
- The museum lists rewetting, blotting and scraping on this sheet: ways of taking color off the paper to win back lights.
Concepts
Image: Art Institute of Chicago · CC0