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A work made of transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper.

Boy in Boat, Gloucester

Winslow Homer · 1880/81

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Palette

Pewter
 44% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.1:1
Silver
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Linen
 17% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Soot
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.2:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.0:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.2:1

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
1880/81
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper
Size
23.2 × 34.9 cm (9 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour
Grey · lightness 61, colourfulness 9

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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