Winslow Homer (1899; reworked by 1906)
Oil on canvas
Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream is one of his most iconic and dramatic oil paintings. It portrays a lone Black man on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, surrounded by sharks and a distant waterspout. The work is a powerful allegory of human vulnerability and struggle against overwhelming natural forces, made even more poignant by the man's passive, resigned posture.
Winslow Homer (1899; reworked by 1906)
Oil on canvas
Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream is one of his most iconic and dramatic oil paintings. It portrays a lone Black man on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, surrounded by sharks and a distant waterspout. The work is a powerful allegory of human vulnerability and struggle against overwhelming natural forces, made even more poignant by the man's passive, resigned posture.
