ID: 700000534 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000534	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Gulf Stream (oil painting (visual work); Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910); 1899; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 06.1234)

Note: Back in Prouts Neck, Maine, after one of his winter visits to the Bahamas, Homer painted this dramatic scene of imminent disaster. A man faces his demise on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, sustained by only a few stalks of sugarcane and threatened by sharks and a distant waterspout. He is oblivious to the schooner on the left horizon, which Homer later added to the canvas as a sign of hopeful rescue. Some art historians have read The Gulf Stream as symbolic, connecting it with the period’s heightened racial tensions. The painting has also been interpreted as an expression of Homer’s presumed sense of mortality and vulnerability following the death of his father.

Titles:

The Gulf Stream (preferred,C,U,D,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1899

Creator Display:

Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) [preferred,VP]

painter Homer, Winslow (American painter and illustrator, 1836-1910) [500019202]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 06.1234

Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906

Other: Creation: Prouts Neck [2045468] Cumberland county (county), Maine (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 71.4 x 124.8 cm (28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

seascapes (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	storm [300054734]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), natural events) (AAT)

	boat [300178749]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), watercraft, <watercraft by general type>) (AAT)

	sharks [300249658]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chondrichthyes (class), Elasmobranchii (subclass)) (AAT)

	man (male human) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

Provenance: the artist (1899–1906); M. Knoedler and Company, New York (1906)

Inscriptions: Signature: [at lower left]: HOMER / 1899 Inscription: [at lower left, partly painted over]: At 12 feet you can see it

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Gulf Stream	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 16 March 2018, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11122