
Life-Size Black Bass
A large black bass leaps from dark green water, its silver-white body marked with red along the side and its mouth hooked near a red lure. Behind it, dark trees and a pale sky frame a loose, fluid watercolor landscape with a bird in flight.
- Artist
- Winslow Homer
- Date
- 1904
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured (t
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1123 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1904).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Brooks McCormick





