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A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled onto a sandy beach in this horizontal painting. All the people have light skin. The turquoise and aquamarine-blue ocean beyond meets the pale blue sky at the horizon line, about halfway up the composition. To our left of center, one end of the wooden rowboat has been propped on what might be a fallen piling on the sandy, rocky beach. The boy sitting in the bow faces our left almost in profile, and wears a round, brimmed straw hat over brown hair, a brown, long-sleeved shirt, and…

Dad's Coming!

Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1873 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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