Life-Size Black Bass

Title	Life-Size Black Bass
Artist	Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910
Date	1904
Medium	Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper (left, right and lower edges trimmed)
Classification	prints and drawing
Origin	United States

Themes: Marine & aquatic life

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“Life-Size Black Bass” is a work by Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910, dated 1904. It is executed in transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper (left, right and lower edges trimmed) and classified as prints and drawing. In this archive it sits within the marine & aquatic life tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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Rights: Public domain (CC0).

This work is in the public domain. You may download the image and use it for any purpose — personal or commercial — without permission or payment. No attribution is legally required.

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