The Garden Gate, Bahamas

Colors in this work

Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1885
Medium: Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 53.3 × 37 cm
Holding institution: Worcester Art Museum
Palette: Plaster Cast · Gray family · #E7D8C7 · 74%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #8F9277 · 7%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #D1CDBA · 4%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B7AE98 · 3%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #5D654F · 3%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #D5C5B1 · 3%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #AEB59F · 2%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #CBBBA7 · 1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #99AFAC · 1%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #82A4B2 · <1%

Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #725449 · <1%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B38932 · <1%

Beeswax Light · Yellow family · #CDB657 · <1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #DFBF88 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #E6C5A6 · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #E7D5CF · <1%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #E4CDCA · <1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #FDEFD9 · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Worcester Art Museum

11 tags

Landscapes Both · 94%

The title locates the scene in a garden in the Bahamas, and the image shows an outdoor, vegetated setting organized around a wall and gate.
Flora Visual · 99%

Palm fronds, low leafy plants, and a flowering shrub occupy much of the composition.
Figures in Nature Visual · 97%

Two standing figures are visibly placed within the garden setting, one at left and one partly obscured near the central gate.

Pastel Colors Visual · 88%

The palette is predominantly pale and softly muted, with light blue, green, ochre, pink, and gray washes against cream paper.
Sparse Visual · 90%

Broad areas of lightly worked or exposed paper remain visible in the sky, foreground, and parts of the wall, creating an open composition.

Watercolor Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the medium as watercolor over graphite pencil on cream wove paper and classifies the work as Watercolor.
Work on Paper Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the support as cream wove paper.
Drawing Both · 96%

Graphite lines are visible beneath and alongside the painted passages, and the catalog explicitly identifies graphite pencil as part of the medium.
Stains/Washes Both · 93%

The image visibly uses translucent, layered watercolor washes, consistent with the catalogued watercolor medium.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1885, placing it in the nineteenth century.

American Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies Winslow Homer as American, 1836–1910.

Winslow Homer. Worcester Art Museum

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