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A work made of transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and traces of blotting, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed).

The Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer · probably 1899, dated by the artist "1889"

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Palette

Pale stone
 40% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1
Smoke
 38% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1
Sepia
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Slate blue
 5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.6:1
Midnight
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.7:1
Charcoal
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.8:1

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
probably 1899, dated by the artist "1889"
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and traces of blotting, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (lower edge trimmed)
Size
28.8 × 50.9 cm (11 3/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson 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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