We look onto two black-headed ducks twisting and flailing midair against a slate-gray landscape in this horizontal painting. The silvery white body of the bird to our left faces us as its neck twists to our left, its black wings extended. The bird to our right falls with its head facing down, its gray wings partially contracted and its legs splayed. The landscape behind them is made up of a sliver of golden amber along the top edge above three wider bands of steel gray that darken toward the bottom of the canvas. A spray of turquoise near the bottom center of the painting indicates that the…
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Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1909

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 71.8 x 122.9 cm (28 1/4 x 48 3/8 in.) ; framed: 105.4 x 156.8 x 10.2 cm (41 1/2 x 61 3/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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