Winslow Homer, Nassau, 1899, watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Title: Nassau, 1899
Artist: Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Few artists can rival American Winslow Homer’s watercolors especially his works done in the Caribbean. Homer was already in his sixties when he created Nassau above done during a winter escape from the cold and snow of his home in Maine. Note in particular the stunning colors and luminous light that seem to radiant from the white paper surface.
Homer also captures the everyday life of the fishermen, a subject Homer depicted throughout his career, whether in the Bahamas above or New England or Great Britain where he spent over a year. Yet what about the cannons sprawled on the sand? Possibly relics from an old fort representing an earlier period of the island’s history.
And tomorrow, February 24, is Winslow Homer’s birthday!
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