Fresh Air
Datelate 19th Century
MediumWatercolor with opaque white highlights over charcoal on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
DimensionsPaper Size: 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (96.8m, 40 cm)
Credit LineDick S. Ramsay Fund
Object number100.41.1087
ClassificationsDrawings
Curator NotesWinslow Homer, who rose to national prominence in the 1860s for his magazine illustrations and oil paintings of modern American life, took up watercolor in the 1870s. Fresh Air is one of the most ambitious of an early series of plein air watercolors depicting fancifully dressed shepherdesses that Homer made at Houghton Farm, a patron’s country estate in upstate New York. He created brilliant effects of light and atmosphere by exploiting the natural transparency of the medium and the brightness of the white paper. To achieve the subtle coloration in the sky, he applied overlapping washes of grays, pinks, and blues and then blotted them together.
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Gallery Systems Demo - Formerly owned by tmsadmin
Locations
- (not entered) Demo Museum (1995 Broadway), Department Storage
Exhibitions
Text EntriesComplete with sketches and notes, Winslow Homer's most treasured book comes to auction in our June 15 sale of American Art. ... Lot 2: Winslow Homer, Portrait of Charles Savage Homer, Jr., pencil, on the front end page of the artist's personal copy of The Laws of Contrast of Color, 1860, by Chevreul.
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