Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda

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Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1899
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 13 15/16 x 20 15/16 in. (35.4 x 53.2 cm) Framed: 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (62.2 x 77.5 cm)
Origin: American
Department: The American Wing
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Duck Egg Slip · Teal family · #88A49C · 25%

Pine Needle · Green family · #46593F · 17%

Herbarium Green · Green family · #7C8748 · 10%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #E7E0CA · 9%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #AABCAD · 8%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2F3A2C · 6%

Lichen Stone · Green family · #7B8462 · 6%

Hammered Copper Brown · Brown family · #86523E · 5%

Seaworn Fresco · Teal family · #588890 · 4%

Faded Gilt · Yellow family · #A99A76 · 4%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #567969 · 3%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #C5A037 · 2%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #42332F · 1%

Tarnished Aquamarine · Teal family · #60948D · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2A3235 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #323035 · <1%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #596520 · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #C3D8C8 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910

9 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The image clearly depicts a cultivated flower garden opening onto a broad landscape, matching the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s subjects “Gardens” and “Landscapes.”
Flora Visual · 99%

Flowering plants, broad leaves, palms or palm-like foliage, and other vegetation occupy much of the foreground and middle ground.
Waterscapes Visual · 99%

A large blue body of water extends across the middle and right background toward a low distant shoreline.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

The composition uses vivid reds, oranges, yellows, greens, and blues, with strong chromatic contrast between the flowers, foliage, water, and sky.
Dense Composition Visual · 98%

Overlapping plants and flowers densely occupy the foreground, while the water and sky provide more open areas beyond.

Watercolor Both · 99%

The museum catalog identifies the work as watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper; translucent washes and linear graphite marks are visible in the image.
Work on Paper Both · 99%

The catalog specifies off-white wove paper as the support, and the image is a work executed on a visible paper sheet.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1899, placing it within the nineteenth century.

American Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog gives the place of origin as American and identifies Winslow Homer as an American artist.

Winslow Homer. Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.