File:Moonlight, Wood Island Light.jpg
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[edit]Winslow Homer: Moonlight, Wood Island Light
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q344838 |
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Object type |
painting ![]() |
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Genre |
landscape painting ![]() |
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Date |
1894 date QS:P571,+1894-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 78.1 cm (30.7 in); width: 102.2 cm (40.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,78.1U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,102.2U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
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Current location |
Gallery 767 |
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Accession number |
11.116.2 |
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Place of creation |
United States of America ![]() |
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Credit line | Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Monogram and date bottom left: W H 1894 and [on original stretcher, now replaced]: Wood Island Light, Winslow Homer
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Notes | Homer’s first biographer, William Howe Downes, recounted that the artist was sitting outside his studio one summer evening in 1894 when he exclaimed, “‘I’ve got an idea!’. . . He almost ran into the studio, seized his painting outfit, emerged from the house, and clambered down over the rocks towards the shore.” This picture “was the result of that impulse and four or five hours’ work. . . . It was painted wholly in and by the light of the moon, and never again retouched.” The spot of red pigment on the horizon denotes the lighthouse on Wood Island, to the south of Prouts Neck, Maine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 20011484) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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