A Basket of Clams

A Basket of Clams was painted by an American artist Winslow Homer in 1873.

Original Dimensions: 29.2 cm × 24.8 cm (11.5 in × 9.8 in) Style: Realism Medium: Watercolor on wove paper Genre: Genre painting Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The work, which was one of several Homer painted in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, depicts two children carrying a basket of clams as they walk along the beach. It is typical of the vigorous layout and light of Homer’s early watercolors, reminiscent of his earlier career as an illustrator. It is the earliest watercolor by Homer in the Metropolitan Museum and was the gift of Arthur G. Altschul in 1995.

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Size: Various sizes available on Blue Surf Art’s online store
Type: Reproduction
Artist: Winslow Homer
Delivery Time: 14-21 days
Item #: R-WH-002
A Basket of Clams by Winslow Homer can be reproduced with the same emotions of the original masterpiece. In our in-house studio artists carefully recreate the painting detail-by-detail, colour-by-colour to near perfection.

Reproduction

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Framing
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