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A work made of transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Netting the Fish

Winslow Homer · 1889

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Palette

Iron
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1
Charcoal
 26% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.1:1
Smoke
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Warm grey
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Bone white
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.0:1
Silver
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
Date
1889
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Size
35.3 × 50.8 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 41, colourfulness 5

Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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