The Blue Boat
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Winslow Homer
- Date
- 1892
- Dimensions
- 38.6 × 54.6 cm
- Holding institution
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Northshore Magazine 27 December 2025
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes and Waterscapes Visual · 99%
The image presents an outdoor scene combining a waterway, reflective foreground, low shoreline vegetation, trees, and an open sky.
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Modes of Transportation Visual · 99%
A prominent blue boat with two seated occupants occupies the foreground.
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Nautical Visual · 96%
The composition centers on a boat on water, with an oar extending leftward and aquatic reflections beneath the vessel.
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Figures in Nature Visual · 96%
Two human figures are visibly situated within a natural waterside environment.
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Reflections Visual · 98%
The water and shoreline are rendered with broken reflections of the boat, figures, vegetation, and sky.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 92%
The landscape is dominated by muted greens, browns, ochres, and gray-blue tones, contrasted by the boat’s deep blue hull.
Medium and Techniques
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Watercolor Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as watercolor over graphite pencil on paper and classifies the work as Watercolor.
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Work on Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog specifies paper as the support: watercolor over graphite pencil on paper.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1892, placing it within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 98%
The artist is identified in the catalog as Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910.
Source & rights
Winslow Homer. Northshore Magazine 27 December 2025
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,920 × 1,332 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed