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Looking for fine art oil painting with real brushwork? Hurricane, Bahamas is reproduced by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas after Winslow Homer. The result is a piece of vintage oil painting wall decor that anchors a hallway and rewards a closer look.
1898
watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States.
Homer’s attention to inclement weather in this watercolor distinguishes it from the more idyllic tropical images he produced during a previous trip to the Bahamas, in 1884–85. Dark clouds threaten, while several tall palms are lashed by violent winds. As was his tendency, the artist acknowledged the archipelago’s status as a Crown colony—signaled here at bottom center with the Red Ensign, a flag flown by British ships. This detail combined with the tempestuous weather may evoke the geopolitical turmoil elsewhere in the Caribbean that year, specifically in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The weather events depicted here and in Homer’s images of storms off the coast of Maine represent important precursors to the turbulence of The Gulf Stream.
Palm trees are used in the background to communicate the activity that the artist would have experienced at the time. Wind would sweep around this environment as the hurricane passed by. Dark clouds can be seen in the distance, adding to this feeling of menace to the local community who patiently hide within their homes below. Homer chooses an unusual compositional style here, with homes cropped in half, leaving our full focus on what occurs above. The small houses are tightly packed together, as if congregated together for protection. We can spot a small slither of sea to the left hand side but the horizon is delberately placed at a low level, giving the sky much more room within this painting. The angle of the palms would suggest that the strong wind is coming in from our left hand side, but hurricanes tend to be a little more varied in direction than everyday wind would be. Homer became interested in hurricanes and other types of storms in the latter part of his career, often depicting shipwrecks as well.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for a hallway.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the fine art brushwork visible and gives the vintage oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As hallway wall art, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large hallway feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for fine art oil painting as a gift.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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