Market Scene, Nassau

Colors in this work

Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1885
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 35.5 × 53.3 cm
Holding institution: Yale University Art Gallery
Palette: Limestone Dust · Gray family · #CEC7B7 · 53%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #E3DBCA · 17%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #55483F · 11%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #847765 · 9%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #A59A87 · 4%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #B0A99B · 3%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #849698 · 2%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #53616E · <1%

Graphite Block · Gray family · #4F534A · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #B7B8A8 · <1%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #C2A986 · <1%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #444F50 · <1%

Roman Brick Earth · Brown family · #82453A · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #C2AFA6 · <1%

Bitumen Shadow · Black family · #262421 · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #9AA094 · <1%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B7945F · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #B19D9A · <1%

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Image provider: wikimedia-commons
License: Public domain
Credit: Yale University Art Gallery

10 tags

Nautical Visual · 99%

The composition prominently features boats, masts, rigging, and a waterfront setting.
Water Visual · 99%

Water fills the lower portion of the composition and extends across the background behind the vessels.
Scenes of Everyday Life Both · 94%

The title identifies a market scene, while the image shows figures gathered around boats, cargo, and equipment.
Modes of Transportation Visual · 97%

Several small boats and a larger central vessel dominate the foreground and function as the scene’s principal means of movement across the water.
Work and Workers Visual · 86%

Multiple figures are visibly engaged with the boats, equipment, and bundled or piled goods, suggesting waterfront labor.

19th Century American Art Metadata · 98%

The work is dated 1885 and its artist is identified as American, supporting its placement in nineteenth-century American art.

Watercolor Both · 99%

The catalog identifies the medium as watercolor and graphite on paper, and the image visibly combines translucent washes with dark linear marks.
Work on Paper Metadata · 99%

The catalog records the support as paper and gives the medium as watercolor and graphite on paper.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 93%

The work uses broad, fluid watercolor applications and loose, irregular marks, especially in the water, sky, boats, and clothing.

Winslow Homer. Yale University Art Gallery

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