Netting the Fish

A figure in a dark shirt and cap sits in a rowboat on rippling dark water, holding a fishing rod upright in one hand and a long-handled net extended toward a pale fish at the left. The loose, layered washes of gray and black suggest a shadowy wooded shore, and the boat's reflection stretches across the water.

Artist

Winslow Homer

Date

1889

Medium

Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick,

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1183 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection