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Four women with pale, peach skin, wearing long white dresses, stand or sit on a sunny beach in this wide, horizontal painting. People and carriages are painted as hazy gray silhouettes spread along the beach in the distance. The silhouettes span the left half of the horizon, which comes halfway up the painting. To our right, the water is a pale blue with loose strokes of white, light gray, and ice blue to suggest waves and surf. On the pale sand, three of the women sit close to us, huddled under two broad parasols on a brown blanket. Their bodies face the water, and their features and…
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East Hampton Beach, Long Island

Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1874

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 25.8 × 55.1 cm (10 3/16 × 21 11/16 in.) ; framed: 33.02 × 62.23 × 5.4 cm (13 × 24 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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