A young woman with flushed, peachy skin stands on a rocky shoreline with a fishing net slung over one shoulder in this horizontal painting. Her body faces us, and she looks off and down to our right. Her left hand, to our right, is planted on her hip, and she clutches the gray net with her other hand. Her head tips toward us as her chin tucks back toward her shoulder. She has a round jaw, a straight nose, and her pink lips are set in a line. Her brown hair is pulled back and up, and bangs sweep across her forehead. Her ash-brown shirt has white bands echoing the neckline, across the waist,…
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A Light on the Sea

Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1897

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 71.6 × 122.2 cm (28 3/16 × 48 1/8 in.) ; framed: 112.4 × 163.2 × 10.8 cm (44 1/4 × 64 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1907)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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