Banana Tree, Nassau
Colors in this work
Details
- Artist
- Winslow Homer
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 33 cm
- Holding institution
- Des Moines Art Center
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Des Moines Art Center
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Flora Visual · 99%
Large banana leaves, stems, and multiple clusters of banana fruit dominate the foreground.
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Landscapes and Waterscapes Visual · 98%
The composition presents a natural waterside scene with vegetation, open sky, a horizon, and shoreline.
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Water Visual · 99%
A broad horizontal expanse of blue water occupies the lower middle of the composition.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 95%
The palette includes vivid greens, turquoise and deep blues, and warm ocher, orange, coral, and brown accents.
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Asymmetrical Visual · 95%
The visual weight is unevenly distributed, with dense banana foliage concentrated along the right and left edges and an open central view.
Medium and Techniques
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Watercolor Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the work as watercolor on paper and classifies it as Watercolor.
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Work on Paper Both · 99%
The image shows translucent watercolor washes on a paper support, consistent with the catalog description “Watercolor on paper.”
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Stains/Washes Visual · 92%
Broad translucent washes, irregular pigment deposits, and lightly worked passages are visibly prominent in the rendering of the sky, water, and foliage.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to 1885.
Source & rights
Winslow Homer. Des Moines Art Center
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 1,888 × 2,000 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed